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APPLICATIONS: The new formats can hold full-length feature films with a resolution six times as sharp as today's DVDs, plus goodies such as uncompressed surround sound...
...technology are not on the studios' side. Just as the Napster phenomenon appeared to come out of nowhere, the next generation of file-sharing software is already in utero. Last month computer scientists at Caltech set a new data-transmission record: they achieved the equivalent of downloading a full-length feature film in 4 sec. It's a bumpy road to acceptance for any disruptive entertainment technology, from piano rolls to the VCR. "One thing you can count on in Hollywood is fear of change," says Warren Lieberfarb, the man who launched the DVD. But as Lieberfarb's profit-rich...
With their second full-length album Antics, Interpol beat the sophomore jinx and begin to lay down roots as an indie institution. The New York quartet builds on the success of its debut, Turn on the Bright Lights, expanding musically while remaining faithful to the viscous, subversive recipe that won them critical acclaim in the first place. The new record finds the young band charged with composure and confidence, equipped with a welcome infusion of melodic complexity...
With so much on the line, Bush started prepping this summer and has had occasional full-length dress rehearsals, but the pace picked up last weekend at his Crawford, Texas, ranch. New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, who played Al Gore in the 2000 drill, stood in for Kerry, and admaker Mark McKinnon assumed the role of the first debate moderator. It all took place in a one-story building known as the Conference Center, where Bush practiced behind a lectern and aides flashed cue cards that told him how much time he had left, just as officials will...
...Microsoft wants to help. It released two new portable media centers-built by Creative and Samsung-in September, with a third by iRiver out this month. Each has a color screen and a hard drive that can store music, pictures and video. It may prove difficult to enjoy a full-length movie on a nine-centimeter screen, but you will have other media from which to choose: Microsoft has partnered with content providers CinemaNow and Major League Baseball (just in time for the World Series). The Creative 20-gigabyte Zen or the Samsung Yepp YH-999 are available...