Word: players
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will get a royalty of between $2 and $3 for every disc sold, have been happy to supply films. "It's a new market we cannot afford to ignore," says Norman Glenn of MCA, the big Los Angeles-based entertainment conglomerate, which is making discs for the Magnavox player. The company has been rummaging movie company libraries for popular films. While recent releases on the MCA discs cost $15.95, older classics like Destry Rides Again and TV movies (Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman) sell for $9.95; how-to features like a Julia Child cooking course or films...
Magnavox, which has been marketing a $695 videodisc player in Atlanta since December and plans to introduce it in other cities this year, has already assembled a list of 202 recorded discs; they include 108 movies, among them Animal House, Jaws 2 and House Calls, which sell for a top price of $15.95. RCA plans to launch a less expensive system (about $400) next year and is also building up a library of similarly priced films, as well as concerts and opera performances...
...player permits viewers to skip ahead or back, or to repeat the same 15-sec. segment over and over again. The costlier Magnavox system is more versatile: the action on the 30-min. discs can be run in slow motion or reversed or even held in freeze-frame position...
Harvard basketball forward Bob Hooft was named Ivy League "Player of the Week" for his performances in the Crimson wins over Yale and Brown last weekend...
Burns jumped out to a 1-0 lead with some amazing rip corners and three-wall nicks that fell just beyond Havens' racquet. "Burnsy is a very good player, but I've never seen him hit it like that before," Heller said. "He was out of his mind...