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To hear Hollywood tell it, the DVD format is dead and please send flowers. Not exactly, although those shelves at Best Buy, Target and Wal-Mart, at one time bursting with DVDs featuring prerecorded movies and TV series, are now on the skimpy side. Sales of DVDs were once regarded as an easy cash cow, often pulling some movies that didn’t quite deliver box-office bang back into the profit side of the balance sheet ledger. Now many of those same flicks that were offered at full price are now taking up residence in $5 Wal-Mart dump bins or as an impulse-buy way station at a Wegmans aisle.

There’s blame to go around for the DVD downward spiral, mostly the recession that has lingered through two presidencies and has forced consumers to seek cheaper alternatives to quench their movie-watching thirst, like the Netflix phenomenon and the omnipresent Redbox kiosks. Those damn tech-savvy kids with their desires for digital downloads haven’t helped, either, while sales of Blu-ray discs, with their promises of high-definition knockout visuals, have cut into the DVD biz.

To be sure, the format is far from buried just yet, and viewers can still count on today’s multiplex hits and misses becoming tomorrow’s DVD option. But the collateral damage that is tied to the DVD economic drought has taken a toll on the once-robust release patterns of older films featuring genuine movie stars; the days of picking up multi-disc box sets that detail the rich cinematic resumes of Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Liz Taylor and many more are heading for the last roundup. And home entertainment units have already released their most valuable oldies-but-goodies that have the most potential for revenue, with endless repackagings of Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz and the James Bond evergreen titles.

For the classic collector, however, that pipeline for more obscure Tinseltown treasures has taken a detour. The blossoming burn-on-demand DVD industry (also called manufactured-ondemand) has gained ground among cineastes, the ones who can always be counted on to pay around $20 so they can land a favored flick they can’t find anywhere. The online service at the Warner Archive Collection started in 2009 and has already amassed nearly 800 titles of these DVD-R editions, as well as envy from other studios wishing to tap their own movie catalogs for DVD dividends. Sony Pictures’ Screen Classics by Request is now in service, and the Universal Vault Series is available on Amazon.

HESLIN BECKER PROPERTIES ACQUIRES SECOND FORMER - Brower, Miller ...

Stanton, California (June 16, 2008) - Seal Beach, California Heslin Becker Properties, LLC, a full service commercial real estate acquisition and development company, recently acquired a 30,000-square-foot former Albertson's building in Stanton, Calif. The transaction marks the second purchase of the business of Albertsons property in Stanton. Heslin Becker will invest approximately $ 6 million in the property.

Heslin Becker praised the newly acquired building on a long-term lease for Smart & Final.

Smart & Final plans to use the building as a prototype of its new. "Smart & Final had its eye on this place for a while. Our long-standing relationship with Smart & Final and his keen interest in the property allowed us to work with them to produce a long-term lease in place quality, which will serve the community of Stanton well, "said Matthew J. Heslin, Heslin Becker Properties principal. "Smart & Final is a quality company, a good operator of shops and a good corporate citizen. The people of Stanton are happy."

The building is located at 7050 Katella Avenue Stanton, California, near the 405 and 22 freeways. It is anchored in the center of the band. Target, Beverages & More, Ross and Staples are located in the street and on opposite corners of the intersection.

Founded in 1871, Smart & Final Inc. operates 229 warehouse stores do not belong in the western United States and northwest Mexico under the Smart & Final (183 stores) and United Grocers Cash & Carry (46 stores) names. The stores carry a broad range of restaurant-quality food, foodservice supplies and culinary equipment.

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