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Article: NAVD attendees get down to business.(News)(National Association of Video distributors)
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- April 25, 2004
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To hear attending home video distributors and studios at last week's 21st annual National Association of Video distributors (NAVD) conference in Santa Monica, Calif., was to witness an industry addressing "muscles and bones" issues with a sense of calm, said Kirk Kirkpatrick, president of distributor Waxworks.
"I was impressed by the sense of partnership by the studios," he said. "They seem interested in the health of the retailers."
Kirkpatrick said that while the decreasing cost of goods for rentailers is disconcerting to studios, a thriving rental market acts as an ongoing deterrent to piracy. "When a movie is $3.50, there is not the incentive for ...