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...Brock Yates, the curmudgeonly columnist for Car and Driver, questions the demand for this technological gimcrackery by suggesting that consumers can be dumb about smart devices. "For a nation that can't program its vcrs," he says, "I wouldn't want to imagine a future where people will be expected to operate a 4,000-lb. smart car propelling them down the highway at 65 m.p.h." Besides, says Yates, "the auto is the last bastion of personal freedom in the U.S. It promises enormous flexibility. This smacks of Big Brotherism. I don't want 'HAL' inside my dashboard telling...
...great engine of U.S. commerce continues to churn out ever more sophisticated means of packaging and distributing this melange to consumers. Today some 85% of U.S. homes with television sets also have VCRs, generating nearly $10 billion in annual videotape rentals in a market that did not exist 20 years ago. The compact disc rejuvenated the recorded-music industry, winning new listeners for both Mozart and Jimi Hendrix, just as the CD-ROM promises to turn home computers into powerful outlets for entertainment...
...television-quality video out of compact discs. The two companies, which collaborated to set the standard for music CDs, have come up with a formula that crams 135 minutes of vcr-quality video onto a standard-size CD -- enough to show 97% of the movies now being rented for vcrs, according to a Sony spokesman. Hollywood should love the idea, since the discs are a lot cheaper to make than videotapes and a lot harder to copy, but other equipment manufacturers haven't agreed to adopt the proposed standard...
Rivera will be charged with stealing several dozen VCRs, camcorders and portable stereo systems and televisions, including a 26-inch model from the office of Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz...
Sony's Hollywood foray began, as so many sour business deals do, with bold rhetoric and grand strategies. Norio Ohga, the part-time symphony orchestra conductor who has been Sony's CEO since 1989, believed in a "synergy" between Sony's core business, producing "hardware" such as VCRS and camcorders, and Hollywood's "software" -- movies. Owning a studio, Sony thought, would help give the company the clout to set the industry standard for the next generation of digital video technology. In the early 1980s Sony's Betamax format of analog videotapes lost out to VHS, so Sony was determined...