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...Fletcher's store is its own adorable anachronism. The dominant poster is from Blast from the Past, and his stock is just that, since all the films available for rental are videotapes - that obsolescent VHS format, the vinyl of home movie entertainment. DVD, in medium or high definition, is nowhere to be found in his rickety establishment, where Mike (Def) works behind the counter and Jerry (Black) lives in a trailer across the street and spends his time getting in Mr. Fletcher's grayed hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nostalgia Hits the Tracks in Be Kind Rewind | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...first filmmakers a century ago and the highly perishable look and feel of old videotapes, which most of you have consigned to the garage or the garbage. As someone who, over the past 20 years, has compiled a library of something like 10,000 movies on that ancient format - and feels like some geezer still hanging on to his 78s far into the CD era - I feel the devotion of Mike and Jerry to VHS, even as I wonder whether these tapes will disintegrate before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nostalgia Hits the Tracks in Be Kind Rewind | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...MEDIA 80% Percentage of high-definition DVDs sold last year in Sony's Blu-ray format. Because of Sony's dominance, Toshiba this week shelved its competing HD DVD format $2 billion Estimated amount Toshiba spent on HD DVD including efforts to gain film studios' support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...League format, with no conference tournament, every league game is critical to the Crimson’s hope of making the NCAA tournament come March. For Harvard, it doesn’t get much bigger than this weekend...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard set for critical Ivy match ups in NY | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...through cell phones, among other new media. Several said the strike was necessary to avoid missing out on the new revenue stream, a sacrifice they feel they made 20 years ago by settling for a small share of sales of DVDs, when that was a nascent format. "The guild really botched DVDs in the '80s," says one children's TV writer. "They were not gonna make the same mistake with the Internet. It comes down to not being screwed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writers Guild Strike Nears End | 2/10/2008 | See Source »

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