Word: jvc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much easier to edit on a PC; an analog tape first must be converted to digital, which is cumbersome. Perhaps the best news is this: for the next year, Sony is expected to have the only Digital8s on the market. That may well put pressure on Canon, Sharp, JVC and Panasonic to drop the prices of their standard digital cameras. Let's just hope they do it by Father...
Technology was supposed to make our lives simpler. Instead we're stuck with 40-lb. monitors, beeping cell phones and a rat's nest of cables. Now JVC and Sharp are making truly simple handheld devices for sending and receiving e-mail. Users just type a note, dial a toll-free number on any phone, then hold the device up to the mouthpiece while short, modemlike screeches indicate that messages are being transmitted. Available this fall, JVC's $100 HC-E100 and Sharp's $150 TelMail require a $10 monthly...
Then George Wein, director of the JVC Jazz Festival in New York City, asked Horne to do a Strayhorn evening, and she agreed. "I thought, 'Well, Billy was my great friend,' and I've only had about four friends because I don't trust anybody. It's probably because as a child I got farmed out a lot, all over the South." After weeks of anxious rehearsals, Horne hit the stage of Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center last year and received a standing ovation. Prodded by a record producer, she returned to the studio...
HELEN MERRILL: CHRISTMAS SONG BOOK (JVC). The vocal event of the season and just possibly the best new jazz vocal album of the year. Merrill, a singer in the great tradition of June Christy and Chris Connor, comes to the Christmas party using the eloquent arrangements of Torrie Zito to bring some fresh feeling to standards (such as White Christmas) and offers up a few surprises (tunes by Claude Thornhill and Thad Jones...
...legal problems fall away, worldwide sales have jumped forward. Industry sources in Japan estimate that nearly 100,000 DAT decks made by Sony, JVC and others were sold in 1990 -- up from 60,000 in the previous three years combined. "We sold out of the home units," says Arnie Shurofsky of New York City's Grand Central Radio. "And we can't wait to get the Walkman. That's what's going to push DAT into the mass market...