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...into the digital age. Pioneer and Marantz will begin selling similar recorders this summer. Sony and Sharp are spearheading an effort to revive the MiniDisc format, which records digital music onto tiny discs inside cartridges smaller than a Post-it note. Then there's the wild card in the audio deck: computers. CD recorders for PCs cost as little as $300, and the Internet, to which more and more PCs are attached, is emerging as a hothouse for new music...
...When they admitted responsibility for the attack Tuesday, the Real IRA insisted so many people died in the predominantly Catholic town because the police misread their warnings. Not so, said Tony Blair, and the British prime minister promptly released an audio tape of the group's first phone call to a Belfast TV station. "There's a bomb, courthouse," it says. In the event, people evacuated from the courthouse were led directly into the street where the car bomb stood. TIME London Bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says it is quite possible that the terrorists intended to target the courthouse, "drove...
Sony consistently churns out artfully designed high-tech gear. But sometimes even the king of the audio-video world messes up. Take its new Watchman Color TV ($109, due out next month). It's lightweight, looks great, and comes with a clever neckstrap that doubles as an antenna. But painfully poor reception and a tiny 2.2-in. screen make it a better paperweight than...
...self: gone, for example, are his trademark maple-leaf dorsal spines, now a forest of thorns. All that really remains is the Godzillic roar, pitched higher than a foghorn but just as resonant, sort of like a herd of elephants on methamphetamines. And that's by default. A whole audio team was given the task of duplicating the sound but couldn't. And so Devlin and Emmerich simply picked up the beast's original "yell" from Toho's sound library...
...hiring hot consultants and buying maximum TV time is all that counts. It seemed the primary would be a shootout between Harman, an astute but little-known politician whose campaign is based on equal parts of gender (57% of California Democrats are women) and wealth (her husband, audio-component magnate Sidney Harman, has given millions to her cause), and Checchi, a leveraged-buyout wizard who has already spent $30 million on the primary, a record for a statewide campaign. Checchi's commercials have been blitzing viewers since November; he hired Bill Clinton's pollster, Ted Kennedy's media...