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...epiphany recently as I watched the movie Life Is Beautiful: certain DVDs ought to carry a warning that they're unsuitable for consumption in public. There I was, viewing the Oscar winner on a portable DVD player and sobbing like a freshly minted Mafia widow. The last time I cried so hard at a movie was as a kid when Old Yeller bought it at the end. Only this time, instead of containing my grief by burying my head in a bucket of popcorn in a darkened movie theater, I was bawling on a 7:30 a.m. train to Manhattan...
...technology improve: medicine and hard-core pornography. And since I'm not sick yet, I'm pretty focused on the porn thing. Luckily I am not alone in my stunted vision of utopia. The desire for newer, better smut has long been a major impetus behind technological progress: VCRS, DVDS, Web development and I believe X-ray glasses were all spurred by prurient desires...
MOVING PICTURES Next time you're on a plane suffering through Beethoven's Third for the eighth time, think about signing up with a service called InMotion Pictures. InMotion rents portable DVD players (and DVDs) to airline passengers for a mere $10 a day so you can watch whatever you want while you fly. Already in seven airports nationwide, including Philadelphia and Seattle, it's coming soon to a cramped airplane seat near...
...DVDS FOR ME Wouldn't it be great if you could make mix CDs the same way you make mix tapes? imix.com--formerly known as customdisc.com--isn't the only website to offer this service, but it has by far the best music selection, in part through a partnership with Sony. Last week imix.com raised the stakes by offering DVDs as well, featuring hard-to-find movies and music videos. So far the selection is a bit martial-arts heavy--Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee figure prominently. Life's tough...
...customer base. A Norwegian 16-year-old, Jon Johansen, is under criminal prosecution in Norway, at the behest of American movie studios, for releasing a program that helps to play DVD movies on non-Windows computers, but could also theoretically be used to make unauthorized copies of those DVDs. The Recording Industry Association of America is suing to prohibit distribution of Napster, a program for sharing MP3 music files used by hundreds of thousands of mostly young music lovers around the world. And Mattel, a company that makes products only young people use, is bullying their own market, trying...