Word: vcr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...history of Big Entertainment suggests it is quite comfortable waging war from behind the curve. In 1982, Jack Valenti, then as now the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, went before Congress to decry the good old VCR. "The growing and dangerous intrusion of this new technology," Valenti said, "is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone." (In the end, the VCR worked out pretty well for everyone concerned, with the possible exception of exhibitors...
...worry that the ruling against Napster threatens to unfairly restrict the legal flow of information online. The court rightly recognized that Napster, just like a VCR, is capable of substantial non-infringing uses, such as the exchange of songs that are not copyrighted--for example, files released by artists hoping to make a name for themselves. Yet it also required that Napster act to prevent the transfer of copyrighted music once notified by the copyright owners. Given that there is no easy way for a computer to tell whether a piece of music is copyrighted or not--especially when...
...complemented by a large model of Harvard Square and a number of photo-realistic computer renderings of the building in its 90 Mt. Auburn St. location, next to the Fox Club and the J. Press building. A planned video walk-through simulation was stymied by the lack of a VCR...
...surveys show that the technological generation gap between adults who grew up with simpler appliances and the e-generation of computer-game-literate kids has grown to the point where three out of four parents admit that they depend on their children to program new phones and stop VCR clocks from blinking...
...convenience of location is achieved by broadcasting the lectures. Sitting in a dorm room at a desk a student is in comfortable surroundings, and does not have to schlep to the library, or deal with a television, VCR, or any strangers at all. It is no coincidence that I have watched the economics lecture I missed this semester, but have not gone to the library to watch videotapes for any of my other classes...