Word: dvds
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...addition to the board games and Legos are two more films, the first of which goes into production on Nov. 19, three days—count them, three—after Sorcerer’s Stone comes out. By the time the next movie opens, the first deluge of DVDs will already have smashed into stores, dribbling cash and trailing more merchandise in its wake. Walking into a Warner Bros. Studio store is like entering a Harry Potter bazaar...
...recordable DVD player, a device designed to kill off the VCR. Instead of using videotape, it burns the images directly on to a special disc, preserving them forever, safe from mold and wear. The digital format also makes your homemade discs as easy to navigate as prerecorded DVDs: for instance, a pop-up menu lets you access all of the files on a disc so you can say goodbye to the rewind/fast-forward shuffle. Among other benefits, discs take up less space and deliver better picture quality. For me, the coolest feature is that the machine has a superfast bit rate...
...planned to do all along. The once obscure University of Wisconsin scientist had triggered the great debate over embryonic stem cells. And so, on the morning after listening to the President's speech at a neighbor's house ("I don't have television," Thomson says. "I just watch DVDs on my computer"), he blithely went off hang-gliding in the hills near Madison. Good thing. As the lab Merlin who was first to create the magical cells in a Petri dish, Thomson knew his telephone would be jangling after the President's pronouncement. "I thought it better to clear...
...form is distributed often changes both the art form and our perception of it. Serialization shaped the form and the audience of the 19th century novel. The spread of VCRs let a mass market explore film history; DVDs, with their director's cuts, multiple camera angles and interviews, are further transforming us into film historians. Just so, the kind of old TV available to us shapes our image of TV itself...
...Joel Stein's essay on climbing fuel prices [NOTEBOOK, June 4], he wrote, "I have no idea why DVD players are so cheap and house paint costs so much." That's a naive statement, even for Stein. DVD players are cheap because the industry wants you to buy DVDs, which are pricey, at $20 to $30 each. On the other hand, you paint your house only once every five years, so the paint folks have fewer opportunities to gouge you. MICHAEL PODRAZA Chicago...