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If this opening-up-your-PC hurdle seems insurmountable, I recommend Dazzle Multimedia's Digital Video Creator ($249), a Walkman-size device that attaches externally. It doesn't have the extras of the Marvel (graphics card, TV tuner), and it uses the MPEG standard of compression, which delivers half the...
There's a kid in Alex Gonzales' seventh-grade class--we won't mention any names--who still plays with X-Men plastic action figures. "He's kind of weird," says Alex, 11, of Fontana, Calif. "None of us play with X-Men anymore. We like PlayStation better." Toy-industry...
Picture an ellipse drawn on the floor. Now take that ellipse and hoist it up, rotating it as it goes. Stop it 13 ft. or so in the air, when it's at an angle to its floor position. Its perimeter, in rising, will have generated a curving shape, an...
But the MiniDisc format makes compromises in audio quality, using a data-compression method that renders it less accurate than CDs. At $300 to $500, MiniDisc recorders are less costly than full-size CD recorders but far pricier than the portable players they aim to displace.
TIME played brilliantly to the new American appetite. The magazine turned the news into saga, comedy, melodrama. The very compression of early TIMEstyle, invented almost entirely by Hadden, lent it an urgency of mannered telegraphese. John Martin, Hadden's cousin and an early writer and editor at the magazine, left...