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M U S I C
Major Labels' Plans for Classical Music on DVD
f you're looking for DVD movies at the Lincoln Cen-
I
ter Tower Records in New York, there's no prob-
lem: Just head down the escalator
and there they are – banks and banks
of them. Classical music video on
DVD is something else. Those are
buried deep in the classical depart-
ment upstairs, in their own small
rack in the opera room. Small is the
operative word. On a recent visit,
there were only 23 titles available.
DVD may be the fastest adopt-
ed new medium to come down the
pike. Just ask the folks who are pro-
moting it: Statistics from the DVD Vi d e o
Group, an industry nonprofit aimed at
& M U L T I M E D I A
I Want My DVD!
. . . . . . . . .
H E I D I W A L E S O N
getting consumers to sign on to the
format, tells us that two years after
the introduction of the VCR, there
were 877,000 of them
out there. Now, two
years after the intro-
duction of the DVD
p l a y e r, there are two
million, to say noth-
ing of the 16 million
DVD drives that are
supposed to be in
home computers by
the end of the year.
But if you like watching
classical concerts and operas