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...thought of this the other day after setting up Sony's new S500 DVD Dream System ($600)--a souped-up sound system that features a DVD player, five 40-watt speakers and an 80-watt subwoofer. I had avoided home-entertainment centers because I figured the setup would be horrible; this one took me five minutes without once peeking at the manual, thanks to Sony's user-friendly design and attention to detail (down to the color-coded wires...
...same time, just as the VCR turned moviegoers into home cineasts, video and DVD releases of old TV shows promise to create a generation of videasts. And it's not just a handful of hits that benefit. Rhino Home Video, for instance, offers cult classics ranging from Chris Elliott's slacker sitcom Get a Life to the trippy '60s kids' show H.R. Pufnstuf (the DVD versions offer videophile gimmicks like being able to turn off Life's laugh track). This is a material world: if you convert an evanescent work into something tangible, shelvable, revisitable and Christmas-giftable, we respect...
...Terapin CD Video Recorder ($499). As its name implies, the device records video from your TV, VCR or camcorder and then burns it onto regular old CDs. Video on CDs? It sounds weird, but you can play them on a PC with a CD-ROM drive, or on some DVD players or on the Terapin itself...
...Relief From Painful Gas," Joel Stein's essay on climbing fuel prices [NOTEBOOK, June 4], he wrote, "I have no idea why DVD players are so cheap and house paint costs so much." That's a naive statement, even for Stein. DVD players are cheap because the industry wants you to buy DVDs, which are pricey, at $20 to $30 each. On the other hand, you paint your house only once every five years, so the paint folks have fewer opportunities to gouge you. MICHAEL PODRAZA Chicago...
...lesson" with a guru (Marlon Brando) whose accent keeps changing from East Indian to New Yawk in mid-sentence. Henry and director Christian Marquand's work on the rest of the movie isn't nearly as successful, or true to Southern's style (the gaudy trailer included on the DVD edition of the movie has the ironic tag line "Is Candy faithful? Only to the book"). Though the middle section is downright dull - that's what fast-forward buttons and chapter stops were designed for - the finale is the sort of thing that could've only been dreamt...