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Non-Tech : Image Entertainment (DISK) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kampjoel who wrote (147)	7/8/1998 2:28:00 PM
From: William T. Katz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 379

Small news: biz.yahoo.com There will be more to come, but why don't you look beyond the details to see the big picture. The big picture is this: real retailers have limited shelf space, that is the way it has always been. There is a large demand for high-quality [picture-wise] hard to obtain videos ... I'm talking Japanese films, Chinese films, cult films, etc. That entire industry is being served by smallish, poor-quality video outfits. I hope the news release is the first step in Image Entertainment moving to become the main distributor of all the non-Hollywood films with the internet as the direct sales store. DISK can master films on LD and DVD. Like anything else, mastering can be done quick or slow with quick jobs tending to suffer somewhat in quality. But compared to the cottage industry, DISK can quickly crank out DVD masters of cult/foreign films at really high (relative) quality and then sell it via the internet. Basically, I think we may eventually see a real change in how films are distributed. The consumer wins big time because they have access to a large # of films through direct internet sales. The press release is actually very interesting because it talks about DVD sales (not just laserdisc) through the internet for the first time.