Pretty interesting article on the influence of the DVD to the film industry: Who buys these days gets a movie DVD, not only the most about a half hour Filmvergnuegen (if you are lucky) that there was to see in the movies and on television and are but a whole meta-universe around this film: Out-takes, interviews, making-of's and much more. The DVD for the movie as a (pseudo) interactive distribution medium, is often taken into account already in film production or buyer, and there will be directors who use the DVD in order to live out cinematic ideas that could be realized not in the theatrical version. As far as the motivation of the film industry really is kind of artistic activity, and not financial (for example: what to pack on it, we can find on the DVD, so they buy too many: value-adding more infos at bei www.calendarlive.com
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