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...form is distributed often changes both the art form and our perception of it. Serialization shaped the form and the audience of the 19th century novel. The spread of VCRs let a mass market explore film history; DVDs, with their director's cuts, multiple camera angles and interviews, are further transforming us into film historians. Just so, the kind of old TV available to us shapes our image of TV itself...
...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...
...just hanging out with incredibly high-level people? Or am I the exception? These are the questions that occasionally bother me when I’m not playing video games or watching DVDs. What, I ask myself as I blast yet another enemy in Goldeneye, did I spend my time doing at Harvard? Where, I think as I watch Gladiator for the fifth time, where are my fellowships, my awards, my 70-hours-per-week consulting jobs...
...once Pokemon playing gives way to bedtime, the plan goes, Dad will be able to put the Cowboys through their paces. Microsoft is coming at it the other way around: let Dad buy the Xbox in the first place, partly because he wants to play dvds on it (GameCube runs on 3-in. mini-CDs), and then buy a couple of cartoonish multiplayer games (like the Marioesque Fuzion Frenzy) for the kids...
Best of all, iBook will save you around 2,000 big ones. Running from $1,299 for bare bones to $1,799 for a version that plays DVDs and burns CDs, it won't break the bank like a $2,599 to $3,997 titanium model. Did Apple make sacrifices for that price? Sure. The screen is only 12 in., though it has excellent resolution. And you have to put CDs on a tray rather than slot them in like bread in a toaster...