Word: discs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sony's current troubles, though, go beyond Betamax. The company's Mavica filmless camera, announced with much fanfare in August 1981, has yet to appear on store shelves. Sony and other firms are still dickering over standards for the camera's reusable magnetic disc. In addition...
Kodak, though, has more problems than just a shrinking market. The company's much ballyhooed compact Disc camera, introduced in February 1982, has yet to turn a profit. Total 1983 shipments are estimated at about 7 million units, in contrast with 8 million in 1982. Kodak had expected to sell some 10 million Disc cameras last year and installed enough equipment to produce 12 million. The device, which uses a disc rather than a roll of film, is unlikely to earn back its estimated $450 million in development costs before late...
...Talking Heads. Billy Joel. David Bowie. All of them, and dozens more, reeling and rocking across those eleven screens in a serenade of sensory overload. The place is packed. "We haven't played a record since last June," says the Snuggery's John Clausen, whose video disc jockeys play tapes the way radio deejays spin platters. So rock on, Schaumburg Snuggery. You may be just a secondary target in the great video blitzkrieg-the vidblitz-that has shaken up Hollywood, salvaged the record business and set up a whole new way of responding to music. But at least...
...glut of the devices has helped stimulate demand to a record level. When Computer Programmer Lawrence Hoyle bought a Commodore 64 as a present for his nieces and nephews last week at a K mart in Lawrence, Kans., he paid about $500 for the computer, software and a disc drive. Said he: "A year ago I would have spent three times as much...
What is there about these creatures that makes so many people wait in line for hours for a chance to push and shove and generally go bonkers? Two disc jockeys in Milwaukee wisecracked that a load of the dolls would be dropped from a B-29 bomber to people who held up catcher's mitts and American Express cards; two dozen believers actually turned up at County Stadium, braving a wind-chill factor of - 2° F, in the vain hope of manna...