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...diversified empire. In 1994 the firm launched a multimedia design group to build gee-whiz tools for game designers and film producers. Last week Autodesk (800-215-9742) released its first consumer offering, Picture This Home! Kitchen, which packs a Ferrari-class graphics engine into a $50 CD-ROM. Remarkably streamlined (especially considering that it was built by the team behind AutoCAD, a program that takes years to master), the software lets users dream-design a kitchen by clicking through thousands of cabinets, wallpapers and appliances and then morphing the results onto photo-realistic 3-D settings. (A special accounting...
...Byrne's CD? Most of the songs on the CD, produced by Nile Rodgers, sound like limp imitations of Alanis Morissette. An advertorial track, It's a Woman Thing, doesn't help either. Byrne is a nonsmoker, but recording for a cigarette company doesn't bother her. "The exposure is tremendous," she says. Unfortunately for many young women, that exposure could be dangerous to their health...
...comes with a steamy sales pitch. Imagine a 5-in. CD that holds 20 times more data than a CD-ROM and offers the richest sound you've ever heard and the lushest images you've ever seen. Throw in digital TV, the standards for which were approved by the feds last month, and the result just might be the culmination of the consumer electronics industry's long search for a grand unified theory of home entertainment: one hardy, gleaming box that plays music better than your stereo, video better than your vcr, and software better than your...
...including, ominously, zero from home-video-titan Disney--should come out this year (a few highlights: Raging Bull, Twister, Legends of the Fall and Tony Bennett's mtv Unplugged), which is a lot fewer than this new medium needs in the long run but more support than the infant CD industry got in its rookie year, 1983, when Sony moved a mere 35,000 players. "We think DVD will ramp up more quickly," says Briesch, who predicts 10 million players sold by decade...
With Odelay, his second CD on a major label, Beck proves he has more than one good song in him--in fact, he has a whole musical outlook. Odelay deftly mixes folky acoustic-guitar riffs with atmospheric lyrics and hip-hop samples and beats. One song, the hard-driving Devils Haircut, attacks America's culture of physical vanity as suffocating and inescapable; another, the smooth Where It's At, pays tribute to rap's roots by praising its resourceful spirit...