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February 2002: Features
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When the 21st Century Gulliver awakens under a blanket of barriers to great DVD menu design, how can he move from mere cleverness to a user-centered approach, usable wherever DVDs are played?
Rarely is a DVD considered in the making of a film, much less conceived in concert. With Final Fantasy, Square Pictures brought in DVD developers Zuma Digital mid-production, and what they created may change not only how DVD is done—but what we now know it can do.
Today’s portable projectors have heads for business and heft for travel, but the smartest and sleekest of the lot have cards for memory, too, which takes the PC out of the game—and puts the sore-shouldered itinerant presenter back in.
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February 2002: Columns
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With CD pricing at its lowest point, and DVD pricing dropping fast, there’s a law of diminishing returns at work in replicators’ traditional revenue streams. These days, it’s range of services that makes an impression—and warehousing and distribution that seal the deal.
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