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...impressive list but still a Jiminy Cricket-- size business. Bureaucratic red tape and rampant piracy in China have stymied much of the profitmaking potential of the Mouseketeers. Disney has been unable to bring in its Disney Channel because of restrictions on media ownership. Legitimate Disney DVDs cost up to 10 times as much as knock-offs, restricting sales to a trickle. A hot title like Finding Nemo sold a scant quarter of a million or so genuine DVDs in China. (By comparison, Nemo sold nearly 15 million DVDs in the U.S. and Canada during its first two weeks alone...
...series of cinematic duds has analysts wondering if the movie-house business is slowly going dark, as film fans switch to DVDs. No, say AMC and Loews, which are merging in an estimated $4 billion deal to create AMC Entertainment. The new company will have 4,592 screens in 338 theaters in 30 states, second to market leader Regal's 6,273 screens...
...derived from commercial callowness?it appears to be official policy. Authorities may be quite willing to mop up small, unregulated businesses to curtail street sales of counterfeit brands, but protecting core foreign technology is another matter. That is why Beijing declares victory when street sales of pirated DVDs move into licensed stores that present the same product in better packaging with money-back guarantees and, of course, taxes duly paid. That is why a decades-long campaign to clean up Beijing's "Silk Alley," a national showcase of pirated foreign sportswear and wristwatches, ends with fanfare when the new "Silk...
...want to do things that conform to my time frame, not someone else's." MATTHEW KHALIL, senior at UCLA, who says he goes to the movies about once a month but, like many other Americans, prefers to watch DVDs at home...
...home-entertainment hub. Sony is banking on the muscle of the PlayStation's new Cell processor, which the company has called "a supercomputer on a chip" with 10 times the power of the latest PC processors. The new console may employ Sony's new high-density "Blu-ray" DVDs, allowing for longer and more cinematic games. But Sony's online strategy remains unclear...