Word: dvds
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...Jess Cagle: Basically, the 11,000 movie and TV writers in the Guild want a bigger piece of residuals - money made from foreign sales, DVDs and video and also from the Internet...
...fees paid for subsequent use of a TV show or movie). And, arguing that it minimizes their contributions, movie writers are also asking studios to reduce the possessory ("a film by") credits that directors regularly get. But the real sticking points are residuals for overseas sales, Internet, videos and DVDs...
...morning light, slouches toward his apartment. In a few hours his roommates will be surprised not to meet another of his conquests stumbling into the living room for breakfast. Not this morning - this morning Fai is high and happy but alone, heading back to his stack of Japanese porno DVDs and his trusty remote control. This morning, the hunter's coming home empty-handed...
...killer app" of the PS2 should have been the ability to play DVDs. The cheapskate in me held off on getting a DVD player for months, waiting to for a two-for-one deal with the PS2. Now that I have a PS2, I am considering getting a DVD player anyway. For one thing, accessing the DVD functions requires the use of an onscreen menu rather than a handily labeled remote control. (Some functions are keyed to certain buttons on the game controller, but you will have to memorize which button does what...
...license agreements wouldn't be limited only to books. Purchasing and using a DVD player already involves assent to a license agreement, and DVDs already contain "country codes" to prevent you from listening to a cheaper foreign DVD on an American player. Similarly, the recording industry is furiously pursuing the "Secure Digital Music Initiative," which would enable them to control the conditions under which music is transferred after the first sale. Such moves make perfect sense to the industries: they make more money from books you need a license to read, movies you need a license to watch, or music...