Radicals go digital - Industry responds...

It is funny, that someone would threaten a well established industry system? Well, it can represent only few of the best, the rest must be creative enough to bypass. What do you think.

"In January, the high-definition cable channel HDNet Movies will air the films at the same time that they go out through their nascent DVD division."

"I like Mark and Todd's energy and enthusiasm," Soderbergh says. "They're free-thinking."

"Soderbergh, Wagner and Cuban cooked up a deal that has had industry tongues wagging since they announced it in April. HDNet Films agreed to finance and distribute six high-definition video movies directed by Soderbergh, to open day-and-date in theaters, on HDNet Movies, and on DVD. "This is my response to certain trends in the entertainment industry," says Soderbergh, who believes that the good old days of watching 35mm movies in theaters, where they play for weeks at a time "are gone. I wish it weren't so. Everything changes and evolves and we've got to get with it, embrace it and find a way to make it work. The movies are not the way they used to be when I grew up. It's 30 years later!"

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