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Personal writers were introduced to the U.S. market last year by Magnavox, a division of North American Philips, and by Smith-Corona, a unit of SCM. These machines soon had competitors made by Amstrad, Panasonic and Canon. About 100,000 of the instruments were sold in 1986 for a total of about $70 million, mainly to small-business professionals, students and the work-at-home market. Overall U.S. sales figures are expected to reach 200,000 this year and 1 million by 1990. Total value of the personal-writer market by that time: an estimated $800 million...
Even though SelectaVision is dead, videodisc technology will probably continue to grow. Such firms as Pioneer and Magnavox, which sell disc machines that use a more advanced system based on lasers, are expected to continue making machines. These devices, which assign a number to each image, allow the user to call up an individual frame almost instantly. Priced at about $700, the laser players are often used in education and industry. Several firms are developing ways to use video discs as data-storage devices for computers...
...music lovers. Just when they thought they had assembled the best audio system budgets could buy, along comes a technological development that may render their expensive turntables and library of LPs as out of date as Edison's first talking machine. This month two major manufacturers, Sony and Magnavox, are introducing a limited number of digital record players in audio and department stores across the U.S. The machines, which retail for $800 to $1,000, use a laser beam instead of a conventional tone arm and stylus to play compact discs, or CDs, that are only...
...been enthusiastically welcomed in Japan, where the players and discs went on sale last October; despite the high price tag, more than 35,000 players were sold in the first three months. Originally plans called for the equipment to be introduced in the U.S. this summer and fall, but Magnavox and Sony have each launched a spring offensive to seize an early share of the crucial American market. At first supplies of both players and discs will be limited, as the companies struggle to get the bugs out and meet production goals. But dozens of other manufacturers have been licensed...
...million in the making. Not a truly innovative technology, Selecta Vision is essentially a phonograph that uses a mechanical stylus to play prerecorded movies. Its costly debut obscured the second type of videodisc: the infinitely more versatile laser-vision disc, designed for the videodisc player introduced by Magnavox in 1978. Manufactured by Pioneer, Sony and the 3M Co., the laser-vision disc makes flexible interaction possible...