Word: tape
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...road to hackerdom starts modestly enough. All anyone really needs for editing videotape is a camcorder and a VCR to copy selected segments from one tape onto another. Unfortunately, most camcorders and VCRs intersperse their cuts with irritating patches of electronic noise and make duplicates that look as if they've been smeared with a video paintbrush. So the would-be video artist soon finds himself trading in his primitive equipment for improved models (costing up to $1,200) with "flying erase heads," which allow smooth splicing, and one of the new formats (Hi8 or S-VHS) that...
Last week, during a fireworks display in Detroit, an amateur photographer videotaped a gang of young black women beating two older white women while police stood by. After the tape aired on national television, six attackers were arrested and charged with unarmed robbery and assault. And in Fort Worth a woman standing in a friend's yard recorded a police officer beating a handcuffed car-theft suspect 28 times with his baton. The officer is under criminal investigation, and the suspect is free on bail...
...treating panic attacks. Former Houston Oiler Earl Campbell appeared in the segment and poignantly described his battle with the psychiatric disorder. A useful little news spot? Actually, it was more of a commercial. Upjohn, which manufactures Xanax, produced the video segment, paid Campbell for his performance and sent the tape ready-made to TV stations around the U.S. as part of a campaign to peddle its product...
...long ago, the production of unauthorized records was a marginal activity that musicians tolerated and even encouraged as a form of tribute by their fans. But the bootlegging of albums has now become a full-blown, underground industry with millions of dollars in profits and royalties at stake. Tape cassettes remain the bootleggers' format of choice, since the duplicating equipment is relatively cheap, but digital compact discs are gaining ground. "CD is the pirate medium of the future," says Mark Kingston, spokesman for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry...
...children's films in the early '80s. In 1985 he and his partner (and now wife) Doris Wilhousky produced a TV version of one of their favorite children's stories, The Velveteen Rabbit. They managed to persuade Meryl Streep -- the "friend of a friend" -- to read the narration. The tape won a passel of awards and set Rabbit Ears hopping. In the past year the staff has grown from four to 18, straining the capacity of the two-story barn-wood building in Westport, Conn., that serves as a homey headquarters...