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...players this spring (probable asking price: $500 to $1,000), and computer makers are scrambling to produce new PCs equipped to play DVD-ROMs. What's less clear is how quickly Hollywood studios will clamber aboard the DVD bandwagon and release their movies on the untested new format. DVD's raison d'etre, after all, is to send VHS tapes and laser discs, the studios' cash cows, the way of all eight-tracks. This week's blizzard of dvd-themed press releases at the Las Vegas show should help reveal how quickly the new kid on the block might become...
...care to see them. Even an image that might not resonate much on its own--a flower, a cartoon bunny--sends out a different frequency when it shows up on a banged-up city block. Although it sometimes appears in the suburbs, street art is mostly a city format, borrowing its images from the primordial ooze of video games, advertising, science fiction, skateboard decals, porn and politics. Masked gunmen, spacemen and George W. Bush are all major motifs...
...weekends." Now they are touring North America again before traversing Europe. But don't expect big-budget perfection. "I want to keep that shambolic edge to things," says Parton. Do expect to grin and dance along with the hyperactive Ninja. Hear the single Bottle Rocket in Real Audio Streaming Format. (Requires Real Audio Player ) 56k/Dial...
...playing the ‘good guys’) refuses to license their FairPlay technology so that others can use it.Apple isn’t alone in pushing closed standards—Microsoft is, for example, guilty as well, with their “.doc” file format. But such standards, while for obvious reasons appealing to big corporations, are anti-competitive, and they certainly hurt consumers looking for variety. If Apple doesn’t have a deal with the right record label to sell you the song you want, or if you’ve bought every...
...that "the world is a book"; Haus Publishing obviously agreed. So last month the London-based publisher launched The Armchair Traveller, a series of insightful travelogues documenting personal journeys all over the globe. Each volume, printed on thick, creamy paper, features a foldout map. Otherwise, there's no fixed format for The Armchair Traveller. The first four titles are as different in tone and approach as the smooth, expansive river that dominates Along the Ganges is from the wild Celtic waters in the sailing odyssey Cape Wrath to Finisterre. New works arriving in 2006 serve up a gastro-tour...