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...Voyager/Criterion also pioneered the plethora of "extras" taken for granted on today's DVDs: the commentary, by the film's director or a noted scholar, which was laid over the sound track, and which discussed the making of the work and the visual and narrative strategies in it; and the supporting materials - director interviews, short films, documentaries on the restoration - that made Voyager laser discs a film class you could play at home...
...Fifty years after their founding of Janus Films, the company has evolved into the Criterion Collection, the foremost packager of DVDs of foreign and specialty films. I can't think of another area of popular art, or commerce, where one brand is considered the standard of excellence, so far above its competitors, as Criterion. Consider: that it's the only label to have its own section in many video stores; that a copy of the out-of-print "white ring" edition of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo has been bid up, last time I checked, to $1,025 on eBay...
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...While Lucky and Flo can't detect pirated DVDs versus legal ones, they are trained to recognize polycarbonate and other chemicals that exist in optical discs. Pirates use legitimate DVDs are registered for shipment, so the dogs would be able to sniff out DVDs that are hidden in unregistered containers, which would mean they're probably being smuggled for illegal sale...
...especially like the backup feature - just select Backup, pick a drive, and it does the rest. Once you do a full backup (which takes some time), you can ask it to do incremental backups, only saving changed or new photos to the archive. You can backup to CDs or DVDs, though it helps to buy an external USB or FireWire drive for this...