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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...introduction, SelectaVision was fatally upstaged by an electronic relative, the videocassette recorder, which had come out six years earlier. Most consumers prefer VCRs because the machines can record broadcasts as well as play prerecorded tapes. SelectaVision machines, by contrast, allow the user to play only prerecorded discs. Says Arthur Morowitz, president of New York's Video Shack chain: "It was a dinosaur from the beginning. There was never a really strong need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slipped Disc | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

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