Word: retro
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...broadcast signals invade, they will demand to negotiate the terms of our surrender with Regis. Now the producers of American Idol are hoping he will do for their new Ed Sullivanesque variety competition (one auditioner balances a 300-lb. oven on his face) what he did for another retro summer show called Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. "Every demographic loves him," says Talent executive producer Ken Warwick. "When we bring him onstage, the audience absolutely erupts. He can ask exactly the question that everyone is dying to know and wring as much humor out of it as possible...
...Turns out you can have your fancy digital and the retro look of your old Leica, too: meet Samsung's Digimax L85, whose sturdy black shell conjures up the romance of 35 mm of yore. Samsung's eight-megapixel Digimax L85 is the world's first digital still camera to feature High Definition Multimedia Interface. Put simply, you can shoot still photos, plus video with audio, and watch it in all its high-resolution glory on your high-definition TV. Video compression is also featured, which gives four times the video storage of older digital cameras. The amateur needn...
Turns out you can have your fancy digital and the retro look of your old Leica, too: meet Samsung's Digimax L85, whose sturdy black shell conjures up the romance of 35 mm of yore. Samsung's eight-megapixel Digimax L85 is the world's first digital still camera to feature High Definition Multimedia Interface. Put [an error occurred while processing this directive]simply, you can shoot still photos, plus video with audio, and watch it in all its high-resolution glory on your high-definition TV. Video compression is also featured, which gives four times the video storage...
Reconciling Pixar's postmodern culture with the Disney tradition seems tough. But if high-tech Lightning McQueen could find his destiny in retro Radiator Springs, why can't Lasseter find a way to turn yesterday into tomorrow at Disney? He's surely shown opposites can attract in his wonderful new film. Existing both in turbo-charged today and the gentler '50s, straddling the realms of Pixar styling and old Disney heart, this new-model Cars is an instant classic...
...There’s really no way to express this crucial point except through sexy dancing (by the women: nobody wants to see that from the artists). The video does have one puzzling—I hesitate to say interesting—aspect. It is oddly, and perhaps unintentionally, retro. From the repeating electronica hook remniscent of an early Mario Brothers game, to the occasional dancer who looks like she’s a refugee from the cast of “Fame,” to the close-ups of obsolete mixing consoles, there’s a sense...