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Movie pirates have found a new format in which to load their ill-gotten wares: the video-compact disc, also known as VCD. Popular with Asian counterfeiters for a year or so, the VCD, which resembles the digital videodisc but offers lower-quality images, has begun hitting the U.S., with boots of Deep Impact and Armageddon now available on the black market in Los Angeles. The discs, which can be played on a DVD machine, are going for as much as $200 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techno-Crime | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

Movie pirates have found a new format in which to load their ill-gotten wares: the video-compact disc, also known as VCD. Popular with Asian counterfeiters for a year or so, the VCD, which resembles the digital videodisc but offers lower-quality images, has begun hitting the U.S., with boots of "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" now available on the black market in Los Angeles. The discs, which can be played on a DVD machine, are going for as much as $200 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psssst -- Wanna Buy the Latest in Bootlegs? | 7/19/1998 | See Source »

...movie palace of the future isn't cheap to build: as much as $8 million for an IMAX screen, in contrast to about $1 million for a conventional one. The projection system uses the largest commercial film format available--15-perforation 70 mm--10 times as large as conventional 35 mm. But IMAX and the theater owners hope to scale down costs too, for instance by replacing the $300 liquid-crystal eyeglasses used for 3-D movies with disposable polarized goggles. (The 3-D system can also show 2-D movies like Everest) IMAX films are shorter, so more customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imax Gets Bigger (By Getting Smaller) | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...bigger problem may be finding enough big films to fill all those big screens. IMAX is expanding its role as a producer and trying to strike more deals with studios, which have yet to embrace large-format films. The company now has some 20 big-screen projects in the works on subjects ranging from T. Rex (shot by Lawnmower Man director Brett Leonard) to (shhh, the deal isn't final yet!) Star Trek and 3-D animation. A recent release, Amazon, is a story of tribal shaman Julio Mamani and ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imax Gets Bigger (By Getting Smaller) | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

Kodak has introduced a new PC accessory that quickly converts pictures shot with APS film into a digital format for onscreen viewing, printing or e-mailing. Simply insert a roll of developed APS film into the Advantix Film Drive ($349, available in July), and images are digitized directly from negatives for optimal quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Jun. 29, 1998 | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

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