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Morita has already found a way to blunt the issue. He told the state of Indiana that he would build a $20 million videodisc manufacturing plant if it would promise to repeal its unitary tax. Though the legislature had adjourned for the year, leaders signed a document in favor of Morita's proposal. The new plant is expected to provide up to 150 jobs in depressed Terre Haute, where the unemployment rate is 11.9%. Says Terre Haute Mayor Pete Chalos: "It was a matter of deciding that we wanted Indiana to be a place where we would see more...
...recent Blonsky study looked into the RCA videodisc. The videodisc is a product that actively involves the viewer in choosing among 54 places in a program to start, but the video disc falied because it involved the viewer too much in a product that he or she had become to used to using as a drug. Blonsky and his colleague Edmundo Des Noes studied the product and made an offer to the ocmpany of a video program that would use the ability of the machine to involve the viewer to actively engage their semiotic interest. They wrote up a script...
When RCA brought out its SelectaVision VideoDisc Player in 1981, it had visions of a huge new market. Dubbed the Manhattan Project during 15 years of development, SelectaVision works much like a phonograph. A diamond needle picks up video and audio signals from the tiny grooves of a silvery plastic disc whirling at 450 r.p.m. To operate the machine, which is connected to a TV set, the user simply inserts a disc and flips a lever...
Even though SelectaVision is dead, videodisc technology will probably continue to grow. Such firms as Pioneer and Magnavox, which sell disc machines that use a more advanced system based on lasers, are expected to continue making machines. These devices, which assign a number to each image, allow the user to call up an individual frame almost instantly. Priced at about $700, the laser players are often used in education and industry. Several firms are developing ways to use video discs as data-storage devices for computers...
Coleco has bought the rights to produce a home version of Dragon's Lair and hopes to have it ready some time next year. Some companies, however, think the technology of bringing laser videodisc games into the home may be tricky. Says Parker Bros.' Stearns: "We very much want to participate in the laser videodisc market, and we're exploring it. But to rush headlong into this area when the hardware hasn't been perfected would be foolish...