Word: compacts
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Sony and Philips, meanwhile, are trying to wring television-quality video out of compact discs. The two companies, which collaborated to set the standard for music CDs, have come up with a formula that crams 135 minutes of vcr-quality video onto a standard-size CD -- enough to show 97% of the movies now being rented for vcrs, according to a Sony spokesman. Hollywood should love the idea, since the discs are a lot cheaper to make than videotapes and a lot harder to copy, but other equipment manufacturers haven't agreed to adopt the proposed standard...
...have the somewhat dubious distinction of owning the entire discography of Midori on compact disc, from Bartok to her two recital collections. Naturally, for completion's sake, I picked up her latest offering on Sony Classical--a coupling of the Sibelius violin concerto and Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra providing the accompaniment...
...potential for fratricide has always loomed in the background as the Palestine Liberation Organization sought to impose its authority, especially in the heavily fundamentalist Gaza Strip. Until recently, Arafat's self-rule administration had maintained a compact with the militant Muslim groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which adamantly oppose his peace accord with Israel and are trying to sabotage it with violence. The extremists focused their attacks on Israel and areas of the West Bank still under Israeli control. Arafat, for the most part, left them alone within his jurisdiction in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, despite Israeli pressure...
Sony invested $5 billion to buy Columbia and TriStar Pictures back in 1989, propelled by a romantic notion that constructors of compact discs and , television sets could marry makers of music and movies. Last week Sony sobered up. The firm took a $2.7 billion write-off -- one of the steepest in Hollywood history -- on its money-losing film studio and reported a second-quarter loss of $3.2 billion. "If we didn't do it once and for all now, we would continue to face losses in our entertainment business," said Tsunao Hashimoto, Sony's executive deputy president. That...
Commissioned by the Philharmonic, the symphony was completed in "short- score" forma piano score, with some instrumental indicationsin the fall of 1992, two months before Albert's death. Composer Sebastian Currier deciphered the manuscript and added missing dynamics. A smaller, more compact work than RiverRun, the three-movement, 20-minute symphony, as conducted by Hugh Wolff, attests to Albert's command of the post-Romantic idiom. A soaring arch, it consists of two slow movements framing a biting central scherzo, and it is full of Albert's trademark evocations of musical forebears. It opens, for example, with a motive...