Word: discs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Race said the 30 to 40 protesters harrassed Kent-Brown, following him to his car and climbing on its hood to prevent his departure. Although police asked the protesters to move off of the vehicle, radio disc jockey Barry Richard said the vice-consul started to drive away before many of them had a chance to comply...
...kind of a sexy technology," says William Mechanic, president of Worldwide Video Operations at the Disney studio. "Laser vision is different stuff," says Robert Stein, whose Los Angeles-based Voyager Company turns out definitive disc versions of classics like Citizen Kane and contemporary gems like Blade Runner. "We're talking about radical technology." Technology, it should be added, that has been around for almost a decade. Laser discs hit the market in the late '70s and promptly took a commercial trouncing from the VCR. Laser players could not record, and, in the words of Warner Home Video's president Warren...
...Laser buffs have a simple answer," says Douglas Pratt, editor of the lively monthly Laser Disc Newsletter and author of The Laser Video Disc Companion (New York Zoetrope; $16.95), which reviews more than half of the approximately 2,000 titles available in America. "We say, 'Got a turntable at home? That doesn't record either.' " Despite its clear technical superiority and the fact that movies on disc often retail for 50% less than tape, laser still went for a rough ride in the marketplace. Both RCA and MCA pulled the plug on their separate videodisc ventures in the early...
Laser uses the same basic technology as CDs and delivers the same clarity and impact. Laser players (which start in the U.S. for a little over $400) have friendlier features than VCRs, and the latest models -- "combi machines" -- can play both compact and laser discs. These newly available combis will likely heat up the laser market even further. In Japan, where the laser business is now valued at $1.5 billion, the major electronics companies are gearing up for a grand-scale manufacturing push, and Sony will start to sell its laser-disc player in the U.S. this spring...
Meanwhile, Bingham was becoming less of an enigma. With under six minutes remaining in the period, Joslin, who was leading the next charge up the ice, was stripped of the puck at the left-wing boards. But the frozen disc skipped to Sasner who redirected it past Bingham...