Soup-to-nuts disc-making stirs DVD services pot.

The article reports that since its introduction in 1997. it's largely been the ideas and innovations of small independent shops that have evolved DVD into the unique story-telling medium that its become. But as the format reaches maturity, the "front-end" services that have defined it--authoring menu design, subtitling, extras are increasingly being handled by Hollywood's age old media-services stalwarts. Both Deluxe and Technicolor each owned by European congloms now--rank among the top houses for stamping DVDs, packaging them, then shipping them to stores.