Word: videodiscs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home-tech consumers, this holiday season provides a rare bounty. Televisions, digital videodisc players and home computers are better, cheaper and less risky purchases than ever before. Camcorders are tinier; cordless phones more powerful. Half-size ovens cook in half the time...
Movie pirates have found a new format in which to load their ill-gotten wares: the video-compact disc, also known as VCD. Popular with Asian counterfeiters for a year or so, the VCD, which resembles the digital videodisc but offers lower-quality images, has begun hitting the U.S., with boots of Deep Impact and Armageddon now available on the black market in Los Angeles. The discs, which can be played on a DVD machine, are going for as much as $200 each...
Movie pirates have found a new format in which to load their ill-gotten wares: the video-compact disc, also known as VCD. Popular with Asian counterfeiters for a year or so, the VCD, which resembles the digital videodisc but offers lower-quality images, has begun hitting the U.S., with boots of "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" now available on the black market in Los Angeles. The discs, which can be played on a DVD machine, are going for as much as $200 each...
...other important product battle is over the digital versatile disc (also known as the digital videodisc). DVD is being advertised as the answer to the CD, the videotape and the CD-ROM. DVD is also the focus of the biggest battle to create an international standard since vhs vs. Betamax (in which Idei was on the losing side). Sony and Philips had been working for years to come up with a video version of the CD that would replace videotape cassettes and take CD-ROM discs to a new level. But in 1993 Toshiba trumped Sony, at least...
...billion write-off for five years of studio mismanagement. Soon afterward, Sony co-founder Akio Morita, who had continued to help guide the company despite suffering a stroke in 1993, resigned as chairman. Then Sony found itself losing ground to rivals in the race to develop the digital videodisc, expected to replace the videocassette recorder and the compact disc...