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DVD FOR PC, TV, OR BOTH
With the convergence of television, communications, computers,
the line between entertainment and work has blurred. Increasingly, PCs
are being used for games and television is being used to surf the Internet
for information.
With the advent of the digital versatile disk, the question is will
the DVD drive be a peripheral to the television or to the PC first.
Logic suggests that movies, that already exist, can quickly be pressed
onto DVD and brought to market.
However, the legal problems preventing movies being published on DVD
will not hold back DVD players created as PC peripherals. The players
will play video games or other original content.
The president of the Interactive Multimedia Association, Philip V.W.
Dodds, says independent producers are spending $5 to $10 million dollars
on video and film these days for CD-ROM titles. They are not as reticent
as Hollywood executives to create DVD content for the PC.
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