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...stained, windowless room at CBS headquarters, a group of twentysomething men in football jerseys and jeans typed furiously behind four rows of computers. They work for PVI Virtual Media Services, the New Jersey company that produces the field-goal graphic and also projects some of the more viewer-friendly innovations--the digital line of scrimmage and first-down lines--onto the screen. (PVI is not the only company in the first-down business. Sportvision, of Chicago, holds the patent for the technology and provides the service for Fox, while Sportsmedia Technology Corp., of Durham, N.C., works with...
Also, as more fans become stats junkies (some 14 million people currently play fantasy football), the demand for on-screen information will increase. "I'm not sure that anyone has figured out what interactive means," says Gary Hartley, Fox's senior vice president for graphic design. But rest assured: with so much money riding on TV football, producers will keep investing to make the game-watching experience cooler and cooler...
...trusted to make Hollywood-style movies anymore. When ancient-history films lumber like the elephantine Alexander, or when technological gewgaws abduct the magic of fantasy in films like The Polar Express, where can a curious cinephile go? China. That's where director Zhang Yimou blended history book with graphic novel in the worldwide hit Hero, and whence he returns with the even zippier, more cunning kung fu caper, House of Flying Daggers...
...MOME Edited by Gary Groth & Eric Reynolds This new quarterly anthology features the best new talent in the graphic arts...
...EMBROIDERIES By Marjane Satrapi From the author of PERSEPOLIS, comes a sort of a graphic novel version of The Joy Luck Club, only in Iran. (April) See TIME.comix review of PERSEPOPLIS