Word: videodiscs
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...This process is re-enacted thousands of times every day at the U.S. Pavilion at Energy Expo '82 (a.k.a. the Knoxville, Tenn., World's Fair) as exuberant children and their more inhibited parents discover that TV viewing is passive no longer. The technology is called the interactive videodisc: the symbiosis of the computer and the laser-vision disc...
...Compass computer, which sells for $8,150. Sony has introduced a device that can store nearly twice as much computer information in about half the space that is now required. Japan is also reputed to have a lead in the development of more futuristic improvements like videodisc storage, which will vastly enlarge the capacity of personal computers...
...Million Tube Job. The investment RCA made in the videodisc machine and the amount it 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...
...cameras work as simply as movie cameras but produce pictures with sound that can be seen instantly on a home television set with a videotape recorder. Sony predicts that the Mavica will soon take its place in the evolving home entertainment center alongside video computer games and videodisc players showing Hollywood movies...
...upwards of $14,000, the home entertainer can furnish his room with, say, a big-screen Kloss Novabeam projection TV, a Sony Betamax video recorder, a Panasonic video-tape color camera, an RCA videodisc player, a Yamaha audionics stereo with electrostatic-charged speakers, a film library, video tapes and discs, stereo records and Atari electronic games. He may add specially crafted lounge chairs at $1,000 each and banquettes ($2,000). For the addicted media roominator there is also a computer to keep the collection organized. Some dealers complain that advances in equipment are so rapid there...