Word: vid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stands to lose if the discs do not catch on. The disc machine, unlike the tape, cannot copy; it can only play. It excels as a teaching tool, but RCA has marketed it for consumer entertainment, where it has fared poorly compared with tape. The bright hope is what vid whizzes call interactive discs. These can instruct the viewer in a variety of pursuits or, wired through a home computer, can let him seek specific help. On one prototype, for example, a viewer with a troublesome bicycle can pinpoint the malfunctioning part of a two-wheeler, and the disc will...
...name: from $3,500 to $14,000 for a good unit. The high tab is for high tech. An earth station pulls in a signal from one of the twelve U.S. and Canadian communication satellites beaming down from a fixed position 22,300 miles above the equator-what vid-whizzes call a "geosynchronous orbit." The signal is focused into an amplifier, which magnifies it up to 100,000 times before it is converted to a conventional TV signal...
...Valente affair is another in a long string of embarrassments for the company since 1968, when NBC Founder Da vid Sarnoff handed his firm over to Son Bobby. Bobby Sarnoff, an erratic administrator, plunged the firm into computers, where it eventually had to write off a $490 million pretax loss. Sarnoff s successor, Anthony L. Conrad, resigned in 1976 after informing the board of directors that he had not filed income tax returns for five years...