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When CBS pitted its irresistible force (Survivor) against NBC's immovable object (Friends), the Thursday-night collision threatened the very fabric of the space-time continuum. For now, VCR-equipped viewers have found room for both near the top of the ratings. Still, for the first time in years, NBC's slogan, "Must-See TV," no longer sounds like a binding command. Airing after Survivor, CBS's CSI catapulted from No. 19 to No. 4 in the ratings in its first week in the new time slot...
HAUTE REMOTE If there is a king of the couch potatoes, the Sonica Voice Activated Universal Remote ($40) is his scepter. It controls up to four devices (TV, VCR, DVD player and stereo, for example), but you don't have to push any buttons. Just tell it to change the channel, and it will change the channel. It also has a built-in clock, a reading light and a voice recorder for storing toll-free numbers...
...Napster protocol, which is merely a set of instructions for sending and receiving files, is no more illegal than the Windows "copy file" function. Beneficial, content-neutral technologies can easily be hijacked by pirates who find them useful, but they should not be banned for that reason alone. Otherwise, VCR's and tape decks would have been banned long ago for contributing to copyright infringement--as they almost were until the Supreme Court stepped in. Even if their manufacturers knew what the devices would be used for, the capability of non-infringing use is stillkey. After all, in the electronic...
...Wishes she weren't a flat screen b) Promised "to love, honor and obey" it c) Wooed it by deftly using the remote d) Is keeping one eye on his tomcattin' VCR...
...light, brief tale of monsters living among us, is even more crudely drawn and only marginally interesting. Pleasureland is an uncompelling clunker of an erotic sci-fi story, following the exploits of an man who stumbles upon a video store whose adult tapes are made flesh by his VCR. The short also features yards of cable, black goop and tiresome irony...