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...Seven years ago, Terren Dunlap, a lawyer in Scottsdale, Ariz., started a company called Go-Video to produce programs for corporate meetings and family occasions. He soon discovered that making cassette copies by wiring machines together was unwieldy and produced poor results, so he decided to develop a double-deck VCR. Since then, Dunlap has battled opponents ranging from Hollywood movie studios to Tokyo electronics giants. Starting this month, videophiles will finally be able to buy Dunlap's VCR-2 (price...
Dunlap's machine, the first dual-deck VCR in the U.S., is venturing where electronics behemoths have feared to tread. Japan's Sharp test-marketed a version in the Middle East several years ago but withdrew the product after movie studios threatened to sue on the grounds that users would make illegal copies of prerecorded movie tapes. Dunlap and his colleagues ran into the same objections to their dual-deck technology in 1984. They were also unable to find any electronics companies willing to manufacture their machines or supply the needed parts. In 1987 Dunlap's company filed...
...consumer from making a copy. Last year Go- Video settled with 21 other defendants in the suit, accepting $2 million. One of the companies, Samsung, agreed to manufacture the VCR-2 at its factory in South Korea. In exchange, Samsung will license Go-Video's technology to sell dual-deck VCRs under its own label around the world. Building on its earlier case, Go-Video filed a new, $1 billion lawsuit last January against Sony, NEC and other Japanese companies, charging that they have conspired to monopolize global markets for such products as VCRs, digital-audio recorders and high-definition...
...department at Radio Habana Cuba was the most prolific of all. One time I got I deck of "Heroes of the Revolution" playing cards with Fidel and Che on the backs. The station periodically sent me contest applications: "If you write in telling us what the most enduring legacy of the revolution is, we'll give you a trip to Havana! Courtesy of Fidel Castro...
...knife, the receptivity and sheen of skin, inserting gradations of color so subtle that they have no hope of showing up in reproduction. In Nice, 1954, with the simplest means -- a few bars of awning-green and two shockingly vivid shapes, a red and a black, that may signify deck chairs or possibly buildings -- he could put you right in the middle of a Mediterranean summer. Still, the punch of the image, which would otherwise be merely schematic, is modulated by the ethereal tenderness of the paint...