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September 1st, 2000
Welcome!
Hello! And welcome to the launch (no pun intended) of
dvdlaunch.com, yet another DVD site on the net here to offer
you reviews, news and other DVD related things (for the most
part).
I guess this would be a good time to explain further
introduce things. My name is Zach B., and I am the
creator and webmaster of this site (plus the one who will be
writing these updates). In addition to being a student, I
am, for the most part, a writer. I have a book due out
shortly (when its out, I'll be plugging that to the extreme.
Just thought I would warn you now.), and have contributed to
other DVD sites with reviews and whatnot. But I originally
began by having a DVD section on my (now dead) movie site,
Cinema Village, but I further expanded that and created my
own DVD site on my (also dead) domain name. The DVD site
there was titled "Zach B.'s Digital Video Domain". The site
was pretty successful, but I decided I was going to kill off
the domain name it was on and create another one. The other
domain I ended up creating was
neasentra.com. It
meant to be a focus more on my writings, and I was going to
move Zach B.'s Digital Video Domain there. However, I
decided to create two domains instead, one entirely devoted
to DVD. Why? For one thing, I thought I would be reaching
even a bigger audience this way. I also felt I could create
something really nice for DVD fans, and that the DVD
sections on my older sites deserved it. My main goal is not
to compete with some of the bigger, more extensive DVD sites
out there, but to provide a good and nice place where DVD
fans can check out the latest news and reviews, in addition
to other things.
You may also be asking how I came up with the title,
dvdlaunch.com. Well, to be honest, this site was going to be
"DVD Domain" (a change from "Zach B.'s Digital Video
Domain"), but the domain for that was already registered. I
ended up going through nearly four dozen names. I finally
found five which were not registered that I wanted to have
(two of them were incredibly stupid), and out of the five, I
felt this one was the best and just clicked. Plus I could
come up with some nifty catchphrases for it :)
I would now like to introduce the other contributing
members to this site. I did hold auditions (or whatever you
want to call them) to find reviewers. I did get many
messages about people wishing to becoming reviewers, and to
pick the lucky few, I made everyone who wanted to become a
reviewer write a review. For the most part, everyone wrote
great reviews (I'm not trying to be so "friendly, goody
goody", nearly everyone who participated had some great
reviews for me to read), but the following people wrote some
better than great ones, and I felt they would best fit the
job for the site. Some people who I wanted to hire I had to
reject because they were from other countries, and could not
review Region 1 discs. This site, except maybe for a rare
exception now and then, will be reviewing Region 1 discs
only.
(Everyone is in no paticular order)
David G. is a movie lover, and is based in Canada. He
is currently working on a Ph.D is physiology. Be sure to
check out his reviews of
The 13th
Warrior and
Sleepy
Hollow.
Wes D. was born and raised in Illinois, but you can
learn a lot more about his extensive history in the
Meet The
Staff section.
Clerks
and Lone
Star are some great examples of what he brings to the
site.
Anthony D. is a Pittsburgh native and has a big
passion for film, and is currently a singer, writer and
playwright. Anthony has done some incredibly detailed
reviews of the stage version of
Victor
Victoria and recently
The
Sound Of Music.
Last but not least, is Justin Meyers. A big DVD buff,
Justin has worked and contributed to some other DVD sites on
the net. Justin's also pretty detailed, which is evident in
his
Reindeer
Games and
Whatever
It Takes reviews.
That rounds out the members of the site. I am still looking
for more reviewers actually, and still holding more
auditions. If you are interested, please refer back to the
Meet The
Staff portion of the site.
Well, I hope you stick around and drop by often. We may
be pretty small and simple now, but this site will slowly
grow and evolve, and I hope you follow us through it all.
So, relax. Check out some reviews, learn some more about the
site and most importantly, have fun.
- Zach B.
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