DVD Talk is a website

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 for DVD

DVD

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 enthusiasts founded in January 1999 by Geoffrey Kleinman

Geoffrey Kleinman

-Bio:Geoffrey Kleinman is the founder of Kleinman.com the company which started and ultimately sold "DVD Talk"...

  when DVDs and DVD players were first beginning to hit the market.

The site started as an online forum, an email

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 newsletter

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, and a page of DVD news

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 and reviews. As it grew, it expanded to include a review database as well as regular columns including Glenn Erickson

Glenn Erickson

Glenn Erickson is an American film editor and film critic. He started in the film industry in 1975 as an editor of low budget films and later worked in minor technical crew capacities in such major films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 1941...

's The DVD Savant and Anime Talk. The site has over 50 writers and contributors who write reviews, interviews, features, and columns; its database holds over 14,000 reviews for Region 1 DVDs.

In September 2007, the site was sold to Internet Brands

Internet Brands

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. The adult section of the website was spun off and became XCritic.

External links

• DVD Talk
• DVD Talk Radio
• XCritic
• On the Web, Price Tags Blur (Washington Post article about the DVD Talk community)
• DVDs Don't Be Duped - Star Tribune (Star Tribune
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  article recommending DVD Talk as a source for checking availability of DVDs.)