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...federal law. It’s equivalent to selling a book on the express (though not explicitly agreed upon) stipulation that a whole group of potential readers couldn’t break a seal put on chapter 10. There’s nothing in the process of buying a DVD that forces you to accept this agreement, but rather the federal government has now bestowed upon the recording studio the right to tell you how to use your copy of a movie they made...
...plastic skin as you move. The result is virtual topography. Since the sensations vary, depending on whether you're touching an icon or a blank area, you can finger through options without taking your eyes off the road. Alpine's first PulseTouch product is the IVA-D300 in-dash DVD player and receiver ($1,500), left, whose 7-in. screen can display navigation, music options or DVDs. The videos won't play unless the car is parked. --By Wilson Rothman
...falling of autumn leaves. So it was unusual last month when fans of the animated sitcom Family Guy managed to bring it back, not by writing letters but by spending cash. When Family Guy--canceled not once but twice by Fox during its 1999-2002 run--was released on DVD, fans bought 2.2 million copies. That number helped persuade Cartoon Network (which reruns the show) to give Family Guy a third life, committing to 22 new episodes starting next year...
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane says few cult series turned DVD hits are likely to get this kind of reprieve. "In animation," he says, "it's much easier to be revived because you don't have to rebuild sets." Or reassemble the cast. But Family Guy's resurrection does demonstrate the growing importance of DVDs to the TV business, a development that may affect what kinds of shows get made--and stay on the air--in the future. Following the success of movie DVDs, which now bring in more money than the box office, TV DVDs made more than...
...Because the DVD business is, in one important way, the opposite of the TV business. Traditional TV, which depends on ad and syndication sales, rewards breadth of appeal: the ability to keep millions from changing the channel. DVDS reward depth of appeal: the ability to get thousands to pay to watch something again. One reason there are so many cop dramas, for instance, is that their stories, which are resolved in an hour, sell better in reruns. Series like Alias and 24, which have deeply involving serial plots, are poor candidates for reruns, but they have committed fan bases willing...