Word: stereos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room comprises an eye-and ear-boggling assemblage of spectacle and sound. According to industry executives, costly home entertainment equipment is among the hottest merchandise around. Scores of specialty shops with names like Video Concepts and Videomart have sprung up to supply sophisticated gadgetry to home-media junkies. Annual stereo and video sales across the country are running at about $2 billion. Says Walter Fisher, Zenith Radio Corp. marketing executive vice president: "The revolution in entertainment electronics has hit not only the high-technology stores but the American lifestyle as well...
...upwards of $14,000, the home entertainer can furnish his room with, say, a big-screen Kloss Novabeam projection TV, a Sony Betamax video recorder, a Panasonic video-tape color camera, an RCA videodisc player, a Yamaha audionics stereo with electrostatic-charged speakers, a film library, video tapes and discs, stereo records and Atari electronic games. He may add specially crafted lounge chairs at $1,000 each and banquettes ($2,000). For the addicted media roominator there is also a computer to keep the collection organized. Some dealers complain that advances in equipment are so rapid there...
...wealthy, a media room can be an Ali Baba's cave. Gerald Hill, a Wisconsin-based oil explorer, has electronic centers both at his Lake Geneva home and aboard his 86-ft. yacht, Bravo Papa. In addition to a vast array of video-stereo equipment in the home room, he has a library of 2,000 movies, including the entire John Wayne film canon and all episodes of the M*A*S*H TV series. The equipment in the seagoing media room includes a Javelin night-vision TV camera that scans the ocean or shoreline and projects what...
...means is media mania limited to tycoons or luminaries. For about $7,000, School Administrator Carl Pasco ARCE has furnished his North Chicago home with a Kloss TV projector, a complete stereo system, subscription TV and a 300-record library. He plans all his entertainment around the video room, inviting friends and following up dinner with a chaser of a Katharine Hepburn movie or Bette Midler special. Says Bachelor Pasco: "Everyone's entitled to an , indulgence...
Another problem, the researchers found, is that the elderly cannot easily switch from one voice to another. Given sequences of sentences recorded by different people and played back on stereo tapes as if the voices were coming from different locations, the old people were usually confused. Rabbitt asked them to repeat aloud everything said on the tapes, and though the subjects did well as long as they could home in on a single voice, whenever there was a change in voice or location, they had trouble...