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...prescient investment in % the movies and TV shows that will be carried over the information highways no matter who owns them. According to W. Russell Neuman, a communications expert at Tufts University, U S West has profited from the lesson Sony learned when it lost the VCR wars a decade earlier. Sony's Beta lost out to VHS because its competitors made better deals with the folks who held the intellectual- property rights -- in this case, the movie companies. That, says Neuman, is why Sony bought CBS Records and Columbia Pictures. It's also why Toshiba and Itochu bought...
...while others catch up with it in due course. In fact, this could end up increasing the potential mass audience for a name-brand show, since more people would be able to watch an episode of Roseanne whenever they wanted, without having to figure out how to program the VCR...
...have, or would have, made a movie like Unforgiven. With the intelligent shyness that empowers many great actors, Eastwood embraced the entire craft of filmmaking, wandering the sets and picking up insights even as he was churning out B movies in his early days. Even now, he keeps a VCR on location to study movies new and old. "My involvement goes deeper than acting or directing," he once said. "I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures, and I guess I'm committed to it for life...
...stage in Las Vegas the flamboyant Hawkins unveiled what he calls his Interactive Multiplayer. On a mammoth projection screen, the machine had spheres bouncing, rectangles spinning and facial images twisting in full motion, while Hawkins explained that it is a VCR, slide projector, king-size Game Boy machine, CD-interactive box and laser disc video player all wrapped into one package. Hawkins says there are Multiplayer applications on the drawing board that can turn the television set into a magic monitor straight out of a Star Trek episode. Suppose you turn on L.A. Law late, and you want to know...
VIDEO: New Hope for VCR Illiterates...