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Eric Lai '93 said he and his roommates went into their suite and found cash, a watch, compact discs and a jacket missing...
...music lovers and electronics manufacturers, digital audio tape represented a terrific technological leap -- a way to make crisp, distortion-free copies of compact discs and digital broadcasts. But recording-industry artists and executives heard an entirely different tune. To them, DAT would dampen compact disc sales, because one CD could be used to make countless perfect copies. The upshot of the argument was that DAT recorders, sold in Japan and Europe for about two years, have been virtually unavailable in the U.S. Now the two sides have at last found a way to end their dispute. Result: before long Americans...
...uses the same digital recording technology that produces the clear tone of the compact disc. And just as the CD sounds better than a regular LP, a DAT tape is a quantum advance from a standard audio tape. The DAT tape is also conveniently small: 2 3/4 in. long, compared with 4 in. for an ordinary cassette. But better sound will initially come at a high price: DAT recorders are expected to run at least $1,000, and prerecorded tapes could cost more than $25. The recorders, along with DAT tapes of everyone from Mozart to | Madonna, could start appearing...
Deborah Johnson, a senior economist for Prudential-Bache Securities, foresees the possibility of what she dubs a "couch-potato recession." Her scenario: well-off baby boomers, who have already purchased their compact-disc players and microwave ovens and typically have children to provide for, will spend more time at home and do less shopping. According to Prudential-Bache's Yuppie Consumption Index, these consumers cut their spending 2.4% in the period from December through...
...answer to the question "What should we do tonight?" seemed fairly limited for most Americans. There was always television, of course, or a trip to the local movie house. But nowadays, with the boom in the U.S. entertainment industry and the proliferation of cable TV, VCRs, computers and compact discs, the possibilities can seem limitless. So limitless, in fact, that many Americans appear to suffer from information anxiety, the inability to choose from among the riches available...