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MacFarlane hopes that all the buzz from DVDs and merchandise will translate into increased ratings. And selling out? How will it feel going back to a network channel after the devotion engendered by its stint on Adult Swim...
...rough start because of technical shortcomings. “They had to replay it a couple of times,” he says. “They also said they’d play it in the big theater upstairs but they messed up making the DVDs,” so it screened only in the smaller basement theater...
China is the world's biggest exporter of fake goods, from pirated DVDs to knock-off Birkin bags. Add truffles to the list. To the naked eye, the Chinese black truffle, or Tuber indicum, looks virtually indistinguishable from its much vaunted European cousin, Tuber melanosporum, a gastronomic delicacy that perks up winter menus with its earthy pungency. One taste, though, clears up any confusion. The Chinese variety is insipid when compared with the one found in France, Italy and Spain. Yet over the past few years, unscrupulous dealers in Europe and the U.S. have begun passing off the Chinese truffles...
...MINIMIZE CLUTTER Move digital photos and audio and video files to an external hard drive like the Iomega, below left. Or burn them on CDs or DVDs. Under your browser's Options menu, limit space for temporary files. That cache saves pages you have viewed for quicker access later; 50 MB is plenty...
Bartoli thinks she knows one of the secrets behind the rise of DVDS. "This is a language young people understand," she says. "It's the language of technology, of being in front of a screen." For this reason among many others, she says, "I think it's the future." Increasingly, it's also the present. --Reported by Lina Lofaro