Are all of the titles in the Shokus Video catalog going to be available on DVD?
Eventually, yes, but it will probably take a few years. Right now we are concentrating on two factors – the titles that we have the best original source materials on, and the overall popularity of those titles based on their VHS sales. Our goal is to have about 70% of our current catalog available on DVD by the end of 2004. It is a HUGE process to remaster the titles because they not only have to be re-transferred, but also have to be “authored” with interactive menus, chapter searching, etc., and then compiled via computer onto a master DVD disc for duplication. This is a far cry from simply dubbing a high quality master tape onto a VHS cassette. We can tell you, however, that all of our subsequent new catalog releases will be available in both VHS and DVD from this point forward. 6. Will any of the DVDs have extra features like DVDs of motion pictures do? Not at the moment. We are limited to a maximum of two hours of high quality video per disc in the DVD-R system. To add extra featu
