Films are usually low-budget, star locally famous actors and are filmed, edited and released on DVD or VCD within a month -- going on sale at local marketplaces across Nigeria.

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On his most recent trip, he stopped in Shenzhen to confirm that he had lined up nearly every major Chinese computer manufacturer behind his company's "Venus project, " a combination of software and hardware that lets VCD players and other, similar devices display Chinese-language Internet content on an ordinary TV set.

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