Word: videodisks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medical memory card is in part the brainchild of Computer Whiz Douglas Becker, 19, of Baltimore, who approached Blue Cross after reading about laser cards in computer magazines. Like the videodisk and compact audio disk, the laser card, which was developed by Drexler Technology Corp. of Mountain View, Calif., depends on laser optic technology, in which a low-power laser beam is used both to burn digital information onto the card and to "read" that information by scanning the surface. Says Becker: "This is a new application for an older mousetrap...
...Spielberg (E. T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Sugarland Express), add the opposites-attract love story of every road movie from It Happened One Night to Romancing the Stone, and give it the glaze of cerulean romance. It is as if the United Nations had launched a videodisk containing snippets from every Hollywood genre, which had then been synthesized by an alien culture with a gift for sweet-souled comedy and an eye for the bottom line. Which is to say that Starman has not an original thought in its head, but it should touch many a receptive...
...rivals, as are Popular Photography (Ziff) and American Photographer (CBS). Nevertheless, CBS said none of these publications would be dropped. The move to beef up the CBS publishing division follows the company's recent decision to shut down such video ventures as a cultural cable network, a videodisk operation and a direct satellite broadcast operation that suffered estimated aggregate losses of $100 million over three years...
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