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A CultureVulture ("CV") feasts in his home theater on fine-art titles that are obtained by him via HDVD.

New . . .

since November 1:

Opus Arte announced they will publish a Mozart Entfuhrung aus dem Serail in January 2008. See "What's Coming?" below for more information. And we just learned about a Japanese Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 with Seiji Ozawa conducting the Berlin Philharmoniker. See "What's Available Now?" below for more information.

What Is HDVD?

The term HDVD stands for three related types of video form factors:

  1. High Definition Video Disc
  2. High Definition Video Device
  3. High Definition Video Download

To learn more about HDVD, click here . . .

What CVs Want

CVs want titles that come out in HDVD to be played on HDVD playback machines. Now CVs can have at home a visual presentation of a quality comparable to high-fidelity sound. We now are entering into the golden age of home theater.

CVs are interested only in fine-art titles. The masses will devour their movies, old TV shows, and worse. But when the HDVD factories are not busy making Terminator titles, they will find time to make records of operas, ballet, plays, classical music, and art documentaries. There's going to be pretty fat pickings, even for us CVs!

Our Mission Statement

Here, CVs learn about the fabulous new fine-art titles available on all forms of HDVD. They they save money on their expensive passion by flocking together to buy HDVD titles at the best prices and to loan, barter, buy, and sell used titles until gorged.

What's Available Now?

Already there are 42 fantastic fine-art HDVDs available on the market (or for pre-order). Find out about them all by clicking here . . .

What's Coming?

A tidal wave of new titles is coming, including about 9+ already announced. Catch the wave by clicking here . . .

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Want to Be a CultureVulture ("CV")?

Here are our goals:

  1. CVs from all over the world will work together on this website to promote their interest in fine-art HDVD titles that they can show in their home theaters.
  2. We will tell you how to locate and buy each title published. The world of fine-art HDVD titles will be a new entertainment category that is not covered now by any other website or magazine. Fine-art HDVD titles will be published by many different resources across a number of different art types. We will bring it all together for your convenience.
  3. We will present at least one solid report or review about each fine-art HDVD title that comes on the market. Each report or review will identify the writer and give basic information about the title and the publisher. The report will describe the title's content well enough for you to know if you would be interested in seeing it. A review will describe the title in depth. Only members will be allowed to post reports and reviews.
  4. When feasible, we will give you a way to loan, barter, buy, or sell used titles to other CVs. Fine-art HDVD titles will be expensive. But they will also have a high value for their size and weight. By flocking together, CVs can use the mail to hold down their costs as they collect only the titles they want to keep.When you have a title you want to lend barter, or sell, tell us by email. We will post this information and go to work helping you make a deal.
  5. We will have a forum for members to discuss fine-art HDVD titles and home theater gear.
  6. Ideally, we hope to give you a website with no advertising. Then the website would be independent from the HDVD industry and supported solely by members. The alternate, of course, would be to have sponsors from among the businesses that sell into the CV market.

What Does it Cost?

Join now for free.

When we reach the point that this site is providing the services promised, we hope to go to a subscription format and charge annual dues. Our best guess is that this will be sometime in 2010 or 2011.

Dues will not support our community alone. We now have a partner arrangement with Amazon.com. If you see a title you want, you can buy it through us from Amazon and they will pay us a commission. The website will also charge a fee if we broker a deal between CVs.

Join Now! Here's How!

Send us by email your name, snail-mail address, email address, and phone number. Tell us if you have a special fine-arts interest and if you are an expert in one of the CV fields. We will stay in touch with you by email. Each member will have a number, of course. If you are the next to write in, you will be CV5.

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About CultureVulture

CultureVulture.com is a sole proprietorship run by by Henry C. McFadyen, Jr., known as CultureVulture0 ("CV0"). For more information on our policies, click here . . .

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    • This website last updated November 13, 2008.

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