Word: betamaxes
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...upwards of $14,000, the home entertainer can furnish his room with, say, a big-screen Kloss Novabeam projection TV, a Sony Betamax video recorder, a Panasonic video-tape color camera, an RCA videodisc player, a Yamaha audionics stereo with electrostatic-charged speakers, a film library, video tapes and discs, stereo records and Atari electronic games. He may add specially crafted lounge chairs at $1,000 each and banquettes ($2,000). For the addicted media roominator there is also a computer to keep the collection organized. Some dealers complain that advances in equipment are so rapid there...
Another unknown is how the videodiscs will fare in competition with videotape recorders. Machines like Sony's Betamax or Panasonic's OmniVision, which will record and replay movies or anything else shown on television, cost from $700 to $1,500. They were introduced in 1975 but only recently have begun to catch on. Some 2 million of them have now been sold, and sales last year jumped by 69%. Another 1.5 million are expected to be sold this year. Six-hour blank videotape cassettes, which can be used over and over again, cost only about $20, although tapes...
...Reagan and his ilk, assuming they can avoid war and keep the Pentagon to five sides, will be able to solve inflation in the short run, and that's all that really troubles Americans. Reduced government spending, coupled with a traditional industrial base growing to meet the demands of Betamax-hungry consumers, will make the economy seem healthy compared to the current transitional chaos. And the political rewards of such success will go, naturally, to those who have created it, the alchemists of the Republican right...
...could describe it sight unseen. Bobby Lee Burnett (Bruce Dem) prospers building taco stands. His wife ( Ann-Margret) is driving him slightly bananas, but she is pleasant enough beneath her Southern accent and her kittenish sexual ways. Bur nett has his 40th birthday and, having received his Betamax, wonders if that is all life has to offer. Next thing he knows he has bought a Porsche, had an affair with a Dallas Cowgirl and told off his best client...
...there are no ICBM's to build, funds sane and necessary projects, the clamor to cut taxes might stop. That seems unlikely, however, in a society willing to cut out remedial reading programs in order to increase disposable income. After all, what's reading when you can buy a Betamax...