Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) Members Renting DVD Video Titles Can Now List Stores On DVD Video Group Web Site: Consumer Can Search For Video Retailer Nearest Them
Visitors to the DVD Video Group Web site will be able to search the site to identify their nearest VSDA-member video retailer. VSDA-member video stores carrying DVD video titles will be listed in a database that will contain the store's name, address, phone number, and store hours. The information will be displayed along side a map helping consumers locate the store nearest them. The dealer locator will be usable as of February l, 1999 and is made available by MapQuest's InnerConnect. Effective immediately, VSDA-member retailers throughout the U.S. are invited to fill out a form on the DVD Video Group's web site - http:/www.dvdvideogroup.com - to enter their store(s) into the national database. When web surfers visit the site, they enter their zip code and the site will display the 10 closest retailers to them and draw them a map. (A special password is necessary to set-up a listing on the database. VSDA-retail members can access this password on the VSDA Web Site at http//www.vsda.org). ""This DVD Video Group retail database is a great opportunity for VSDA-members to further promote their businesses in their own communities, and should prove especially helpful in reaching potential customers who are new to their communities,"" said VSDA President, Jeffrey P. Eves. ""We applaud the DVD Video Group in creating such a terrific marketing tool for our retail membership."" ""With nearly 10,000 video retailers offering DVD Video for rent, we expect to help thousands of consumers locate their closest video retailer that carries DVD,"" said Paul Culberg, President. DVD Video Group and Executive Vice President Columbia TriStar Home Video ""We hope that more video retailers are encouraged by the strong hardware sales this fourth quarter and will continue to expand their DVD inventories."" The DVD Video Group is a Los Angeles-based, industry-funded nonprofit corporation that exists expressly to promote consumer awareness of the benefits of DVD Video and to provide updated information to the media and the retail trade about DVD Video players, movies and music videos. Regular members of the DVD Video Group are Artisan Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Dreamworks Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, New Line Home Video, Inc., Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company, Paramount Home Video, Phillips Consumer Electronics Company, Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc., Polygram Video, Simitar Entertainment, Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Music/Sony Wonder, Thomson Consumer Electronics, Toshiba America Consumer Products, Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Video, Warner Home Video Inc., and Yamaha Electronics Corporation. Established in 1981, the Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) is a not-for-profit international trade association for the $16 billion home entertainment industry. VSDA represents over 3.400 companies throughout the United States, Canada, and 22 other countries. Membership comprises the full spectrum of video retailers (both independents and large chains), as well as the home video divisions of all major and independent motion picture studios, video game and multimedia producers, and other related businesses, which constitute and support the home video entertainment industry For further information, please contact: Kelli Clayton, Director of Public Relations/VSDA, 818 385 1500 ext. 225 Amy Jo Donner, DVD Video Group, 323 845 0147 Katarina Hallstrom, DVD Video Group, 323 845 0163