When popped into a CD player, the soundtrack plays like any conventional music disk.
Dreamworks, which was formed in October, has not yet released a film, issued a music compact disk or landed a television slot for a series.
So far, Amazon.com's only expansion beyond books has been to add music compact disks earlier this year.
Ten days after the announcement, Sony and Philips said they were working on their own next-generation music disk.
The music disks Tessema recorded in Germany are now over a century old.
And, unlike films, music disks need not be viewed every time; the sound can be played without the picture.
Should we get video toys for the blind children, music disks for those who can't hear?
On modern platforms, music disks are usually downloaded to a hard disk drive.
The new medium, which looks like a music compact disk, had already been promised for the third, then the fourth, quarter of 1996.
We have fifty portable optical disk players used for recorded park tours and about three hundred music disks.