Word: video
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shocked to discover, is not a video game. Seduced by the antiseptic green glimmers of smart bombs and high-altitude jet jockeys flickering across TV screens, we'd come to consider international conflict little more than the quick thrill of bloodless lightning victories. This war is not like that. This war is the ruthless reduction of Kosovo: mass expulsion, killing, burned villages, the obliteration of a people's identity. This war is American soldiers--Staff Sergeant Andrew Ramirez, Staff Sergeant Christopher Stone, Specialist 4 Steven Gonzales--captured, humiliated, perhaps tried, perhaps killed. This war is sophisticated supertech airplanes dropping tons...
...most recent (and possibly most absurd) move against MP3s was taken last month by Sightsound.com, who threatened MP3.com with a lawsuit asserting that Sightsound held patents which control "among other things, the sale of audio or video recordings in download fashion over the Internet." Such a grandiose claim is comparable to Random House stating that they have the exclusive rights to the process of printing up and distributing written material...
...wife pointed out that because we don't have any legacy 8-mm tapes, the charms of the Digital8 may be lost on us. But the benefits of digital video cameras are still compelling. You can create a huge variety of special effects and generally enjoy far more control over how images look. Also, digital tapes are much easier to edit on a PC; an analog tape first must be converted to digital, which is cumbersome. Perhaps the best news is this: for the next year, Sony is expected to have the only Digital8s on the market. That may well...
Your article "Video Games Get Trashed" [TECHNOLOGY, March 15] creates the false impression that Connectix Virtual Games Station exacerbates piracy problems in the video-game-console market. CVGS contains technology that is designed to discriminate between legitimate PlayStation CDs and illegal copies. Your article also overlooked the compelling legitimate consumer benefit of our product: CVGS enables you to play many popular PlayStation games on a Macintosh computer. Now PlayStation owners have new choices of where they can play their games, and Macintosh owners have more games to choose from. This increased consumer choice is a far more important social effect...
...earthly distraction, when I notice that the phone in front of me has a data port. You can send a fax from 35,000 ft. Or check e-mail. The entertainment guide has two pages of instructions, in four languages, and three more pages on the personal video monitors in first-class...