Word: playbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, just as personal computers have steadily improved in speed and power, so a doubled sampling rate and better playback equipment should eliminate many of the current complaints. "The compact disc is a technology still in its infancy," says Michael Smolen, senior editor of Stereo Review magazine. "By the time it reaches adulthood, there won't be any of these specious arguments...
...testify to her excellence as an instructor. The administrators had conceded that athletes were often carried, and their lawyer argued that if an illiterate jock learned to read at Georgia and thus became a mail clerk instead of a garbage man, the university was doing its job. A tape playback of Trotter addressing a faculty meeting included her comment that if teachers thought some of the athletes had a bona fide chance of graduating, "we're talking through our hats." Apparently so: the Macon Telegraph and News reported that in ten years only 17% of Georgia's black football players...
...targets are largely conventional-the despoiling of the environment, the horrors of war-her methods are not. A voice-activated synthesizer called a Vocoder allows her to speak and sing in chords. Her violin bow has prerecorded tape where the hairs should be, and is drawn across a tape playback head on the instrument's bridge, enabling the violin to "speak." Her back-up band includes saxophones, amplified drums and synthesizer, even a jazz bagpiper. Films and slides are projected onto a giant screen, to reinforce and complement the sense of the words. It could all easily degenerate into...
When a user slips his brand-new blackjack program into a disc drive and turns on his computer, the drive starts spinning the disc at a rate of hundreds of revolutions per minute. As the disc spins, a record-playback head moves across its surface, picking up the original programmer's typed instructions and loading them into the computer's memory. When the disc stops spinning-presto!-an exact replica of the program will be imprinted on the machine's temporary memory, all debugged and ready to deal the cards. Or, depending on the disc, proofread...
...about two minutes. If the MovieMat seems designed to fulfill the cin-éaste's nightmare-movies as the ultimate junk food-then RENTABETA, a Los Angeles company, may make the medium as handy as paperbacks. For as little as $2.95 a day, RENTABETA provides a playback unit that weighs 15 lbs. and comes in an indestructible plastic case. About 500 video stores in three Western states are currently renting the 3,000 available units. They also instruct customers about connecting the RENTABETAS to their home sets ("It's just two little wires...