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Think we're PC prisoners now with our Web surfing addictions and video games with 999 levels? Just wait, hermits in training--online film is giving us even fewer reasons to leave the house or office.

With 20 percent of home users set to have broadband access by 2002 and video technologies improving daily, home theater will prove true to its name. Though downloading feature-length films via the Internet probably won't be practical for a few years, the demand for short films and animation is already soaring.

"The emergence of a whole new species of online film broker demonstrates there's certainly a market for [short films and animation], both on the consumer and the business-to-business ends," confirms Aram Sinnreich, an analyst of consumer content strategies at Internet research firm Jupiter Communications.