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Article: You can't spell Oscar without DVD: part II: from 1940's "Rebecca" to 1997's "Titanic," these 19 DVDs represent a cavalcade of Academy Award winners. (Entertainment).(digital video disk)(Bibliography)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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THE ADVENT OF DVD has been a boon to movie buffs and collectors. Unlike videotape, which can deteriorate with repeated viewing, dries out, and may snap if rewound too tightly or quickly, DVD provides fidelity of picture, excellent sound quality, and permanence, assuming that the discs are not carelessly mishandled. Moreover, the discs' ability to accommodate far more material than tapes do leaves room for special--and, admittedly, not so special--features, adding even further to the joy of aficionados.
Once DVD players came down in price and began to overtake VHS machines in sales, home video companies realized the potential and started to cut prices on discs so ...