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...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 baby continues to prove, consumers are still hungry for faster, easier entertainment--and there's always another fortune waiting to be discovered. With reporting by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles and Eric Roston/Washington
...radical technology." Technology, it should be added, that has been around for almost a decade. Laser discs hit the market in the late '70s and promptly took a commercial trouncing from the VCR. Laser players could not record, and, in the words of Warner Home Video's president Warren Lieberfarb, "it was a simple conflict for the consumer: Why buy a machine that only plays back when you can get one, for the same price, that records...
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