Quality sells

AS a producer and creator of special-edition DVDs, I couldn’t help but read with some amusement the whining and clucking of studio executives over the slowdown in the growth of DVD sales [“A Blue Period for Hollywood?,” by Rachel Abramowitz, Aug. 29].

To read quotes calling high DVD sales “the old reliable standard” or claims that it’s “always been this catchall,” you would think they were bemoaning the loss of a decades-old institution, not a recent bonanza they’ve only experienced for the past six years or so.

If the slowdown translates into more thought and less waste, then in the long run it bodes well for the film business.

DAVID PRIOR

Los Angeles