Word: discs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soon afterward, Sony co-founder Akio Morita, who had continued to help guide the company despite suffering a stroke in 1993, resigned as chairman. Then Sony found itself losing ground to rivals in the race to develop the digital videodisc, expected to replace the videocassette recorder and the compact disc...
...children watching African dancers in a gym. The staff tries to provide the children with as many diverse experiences as possible. For example, the children had gone to the Spaghetti Club the day before to watch a house staff member who moonlighted at the club as a disc jockey...
Those cries have finally been heard. Last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas marked the long-awaited public debut of the digital video disc, the (putative) New Tech Gadget of all New Tech Gadgets...
...meat-and-potatoes product is DVD video, which is meant to send vhs and laser disc the way of all eight-track. Two dozen models of DVD players should reach the market this year at prices ranging from less than $500 to more than $1,000. All offer DVD's stunning sound and vision, along with the various bells and whistles that digital storage's interactive ease and sheer data acreage allow, including PG- and R-rated versions of a given movie on one disc, multiple languages, no rewinding, movie-and-game pairings, instant searches and every custom setup...
...course, happens to be the release date of Emancipation. The first disc is mostly shimmery party music; the second is slower and sexier; the third draws from throbbing, dance-oriented techno. While a few of the new numbers, such as Let's Have a Baby, are as sharply winning as long-ago Prince smashes like Kiss and When Doves Cry, Emancipation is plagued with a lot of filler. In the end there are just too many middling songs. Still, listeners can indulge in a little emancipation of their own and make one great album out of this three...