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...thinks it is doomed. It was a bad omen when I bought a DVD player, relegating the old VHS box to a lower shelf?but at least it was still used when I wanted to record E.R. or a football game. Things got worse last week when I unplugged it and moved it to the spare room, a dusty purgatory for appliances on their way out of the loop. Then I set up the gleaming new Panasonic DMR-E20 recordable DVD player, a device designed to kill off the VCR. Instead of using videotape, it burns the images directly...
Jeff Bridges has already explored the comical worlds of the insane. (Rent The Fisher King). Kevin Spacey has already taught us to savor every moment of our lives. (Hint: You own this movie on DVD). So why have they given us K-PAX, a rehash of old themes which fails to transcend the formula...
...teen-pop revolution, you enter an unmarked, soot-colored brownstone in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. In his office on the 11th floor, behind his big wooden desk with its neatly organized stacks of CDs, Jive president Barry Weiss is a crackling wire of energy, jumping up to fetch a DVD from a shelf, scribbling memos, barking orders in a brisk, rat-tat-tat fashion. The walls of the native Long Islander's office are decorated with the trophies of two decades of conquests--half a dozen gold and platinum albums...
Proudly, I called my wife into the den. What, she asked, did I intend to do about all the wires? True, five sets now ran from the thin DVD receiver to speakers flanking the TV, then cascaded across the floor to other speakers behind the couch and to the big subwoofer that sat like a hound in the center of the floor. I made a suggestion. "Drill holes in the bookcases?" repeated my wife. Then she said it again, emphasizing different words. Then she left the room, chuckling in a way that scared...
...rent Doris Days for your DVD," I explained. What your home-entertainment center wants is something that can show off its sound system: warbling aliens, metal being ripped asunder, explosions whose concussive booms start at your toes and rumble across the den and into the kitchen, where they look in the fridge for something...