Word: video
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process is as simple as getting your snapshot taken in a dime-store photo booth. But instead of spitting out a strip of black-and-white pictures, the vending machines from Short Takes, a Minneapolis company, record an instant video greeting. Customers pay $10 for a blank cassette, which they insert in a slot in the machine. Then a camera in the booth records ten minutes of monologue, mugging or whatever message the customer wants to send. A mailing envelope is included...
Twenty summers ago, millions of Americans heard the words "the Eagle has landed" as astronaut Neil Armstrong prepared to take man's first steps on the moon. During the next three weeks, 174 local TV stations in the U.S. will broadcast Man in Space, a one-hour video history of space exploration. Produced by TIME Magazine Television and California-based GGP, the program will feature footage from the archives of NASA, U.P.I. and other sources. The show will also include interviews with U.S. and Soviet space pioneers, who now dream of the next goal: manned exploration of Mars...
...million homes, the VCR has become nearly as much a part of American life as the family car. But despite the VCR's advantages, video buffs complain about its limits. To duplicate prerecorded movies, for instance, requires two VCRs awkwardly cabled together. No wonder, then, that fans at Chicago's Consumer Electronics Show last week were excited by a new machine that eliminates the drawback. Moreover, its appearance was a triumph over well- wired opposition in Tokyo and Hollywood...
...center of the excitement was the first dual-deck videotape recorder available to U.S consumers, the VCR-2, made by the tiny Arizona-based Go-Video company. The VCR-2 enables its users to make high-quality duplicates of prerecorded tapes easily. It also lets viewers watch a tape while simultaneously recording off the air. Go-Video hopes to have a limited supply of the VCR-2 in stores by Christmastime, priced at just under...
...machine's move from freeze-frame to fast-forward has not been easy. For starters, Go-Video could find no Japanese companies, which control manufacture of crucial VCR parts, willing to provide needed components. For another thing, U.S. movie studios opposed the machine. So the company sued 15 Japanese and Korean makers, plus the Hollywood studios, claiming restraint of trade. Several manufacturers have now settled with Go-Video, and Korea's Samsung is tooling up to produce the VCR-2. Meanwhile, Hollywood has modified its opposition because Go-Video agreed to install circuitry that will prevent the VCR-2 from...