Word: dvd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jeans and Beatles tapes here to sell on the street. Not only are products like these readily available, but many stores in Moscow carry products I have never even seen in America. Virtualny Mir (Virtual World), an electronics store, boasts products like a fifty-inch high-definition television with DVD players and a strobe-lit dishwasher with a transparent front. After six years of Western companies cultivating the idea of conspicuous consumption here, the Russians are finally catching...
...Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was full of new TVs in all shapes and sizes, but the most tempting were the slim-screen plasma displays. Made by Fujitsu, left, and Philips, the 42-inchers offer twice the sharpness of today's sets--perfect for movies in the new DVD format...
...DVD Players After too many years spent watching movie studios and the electronics industry haggle over the arcane details of this high-tech successor to the CD and the vcr, consumers are finally thrilling to its dazzling sound and pictures. dvd was worth the wait. Now where's the software...
...Consumer Electronics Manufacturing Association, more than 15 million U.S. households enjoy the big pictures and booming Surround Sound that come with a wide-screen, 25-to-65-in. TV, an audio-video receiver, a front and rear set of speakers, hi-fi VCR and a LaserDisc or DVD player. Less than a decade ago, entertainment mavens had to shell out tens, even hundreds, of thousands of dollars for that kind of gear. Now newcomers can find complete, easy-to-install packages for $2,000 to $3,000--a price range that has helped the industry generate a record $9 billion...
...cable and broadcasters start to roll out high-resolution programming in the next few years, more viewers will find a reason to be immersed in a movie-theater environment. "The future of home theater is in digital TV," says Dataquest analyst Jonathan Cassell. At the same time, DVD, the next-generation successor to videotapes and CDs that is hitting the market, promises superior audiovisual quality. The final touch: futuristic flat-panel TVs that hang as elegantly on a wall as a Renoir...