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Only three years ago, the laser-read records known as compact discs, or CDs, were an untested and expensive new technology whose acceptance by consumers was the music industry's great imponderable. Today the upstart CD is challenging the decades-old supremacy of the long- playing record. Last year CDs accounted for 8.9% of the sales of the $4.4 billion recording industry, which also includes LPs and tapes. This year analysts expect CD sales of nearly 50 million discs...
...turntable to re-create the sound. In digital recording, the music is sampled by a microchip at the rate of 44,100 times a second and expressed as a series of ones and zeros. Encoded in invisible "pits," the numbers are read by a player equipped with a laser beam, which relays the information to a microcomputer that converts the digits back to sound...
Complete with musical and dance performances, tableaux, laser projections, and fireworks, the hour-and-a half-long show should contain something to please everyone. 350th officials are estimating that a total of 700 people will appear on the stadium stage with about 25,000 watching in the stands...
...Visually there will be some spectacular things," said Clara Wainwright, coordinator of the floating birthday party, which is free and open to the public. Wainwright, the Cambridge artist who founded the Boston New Year's Eve celebration First Night, said that the floating extravaganza will also feature laser pictures projected onto a 50-foot high water screen...
Everybody's invited to a big free party on the banks of the Charles on Sept. 3. Here, you can watch a laser show where whales are flashed on a water screen; fire-eaters, jugglers and a huge marionette of John Harvard will wander among the crowds; and a 600-foot inflatable silver arch will reach across the Charles River over a barge full of Russian singers from Yale. Oh, and of course, the 23-piece women's samba band...