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...most public controversy surrounding these protections has to do with a particular form of encryption called CSS which is put on DVDs to restrict the ways in which their owners can use them. In particular, it prevents the disks from being played at full quality on any player not licensed for the purpose. This means that I could go out and buy a legal copy of a feature film, pay all of the necessary royalties to the copyright holder and still be unable to use it in private performance as I desire...
...fact, there exist no licensed players for the Linux operating system, so while the three million Linux users can all play DVDs on their computer using a clever program called DeCSS (versions of which have been written that are small enough to fit neatly on the back of a business card), to do so is a violation of 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?...
...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
...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 $1 billion last year...
...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...