Word: disces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brought out its SelectaVision VideoDisc Player in 1981, it had visions of a huge new market. Dubbed the Manhattan Project during 15 years of development, SelectaVision works much like a phonograph. A diamond needle picks up video and audio signals from the tiny grooves of a silvery plastic disc whirling at 450 r.p.m. To operate the machine, which is connected to a TV set, the user simply inserts a disc and flips a lever...
...tried to promote its disc player as a low-cost alternative to tape machines, which was feasible three years ago, when VCRs typically sold for $1,000 and RCA's disc player went for $500. But prices for cassette recorders have fallen as low as $300. RCA dropped the price on the least expensive player to $199, but it was never able to take sales away from VCRs...
...Junior's other problems are more visible. Dealers and users alike complain about its toylike appearance, its Chiclet-shaped keys, the built-in design barriers that make it difficult to expand the machine's memory or attach extra disc drives. But its biggest drawback has been price. In the market for home computers, where most machines sell for under $300, even the stripped-down $669 version of the PCjr seems overpriced. "For its level of performance," says William Bowman, chairman of Spinnaker, a leading software publisher, "it is simply the most expensive machine on the market." Although...
...successful" show dancers, he is in and out of work: he appeared in a 1981 international tour of West Side Story and with Sandy Duncan in last year's Five-Six-Seven-Eight . . . Dance! at Radio City Music Hall, but at the moment he is a waiter and disc jockey at catered parties. "I choreograph a video here, I dance in an industrial film there. But this is not steady employment...
...avenged the humiliations by choosing targets who resembled his dark-haired mother, sometimes jamming a gloved hand far down their throats. The brutal attacks were accompanied by obscene verbal abuse, threats of death and curiously polite asides. After the rape of "Sunshine" Shelly Monahan, a popular Spokane disc jockey, Coe asked the battered woman in executive tones, "How do you plan to further your radio career...