Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Owning a video store, which not long ago seemed like a can't-miss way to make a living, is getting to be as nerve-racking as sitting through a Steven Spielberg thriller. Last week videocassette retailers were in an uproar over the disorderly debut of the home-video version of Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Disgruntled shopkeepers claimed that some stores belonging to such giant chains as K mart, Wal-Mart and Waldenbooks had taken an unfair lead on competitors by putting the popularly priced ($29.95) Paramount blockbuster on sale as much as a week...
...high static over just one tape signals the intense level of competition that is coming soon to the video store near you -- or has already arrived. The number of outlets that rent or sell videocassettes has surged from as few as 10,000 in 1981 to more than 35,000 today. Everyone from car-wash operators to grocers to American Express has got into the act of dispensing tapes. The array of new outlets is bringing lower prices, wider selection and greater convenience for consumers, but it is also beginning to squeeze out many of the mom-and-pop operators...
...picture, we were told, "It was the Deltas against the rules. And the rules lost." Since then, Landis has continued to break rules, whether by making an R&B picture during the height of disco (1980's The Blues Brothers) or by running roughshod over MTV's 3-minute video format with a 20-minute musical short subject (Michael Jackson's Thriller...
Landis also directed Michael Jackson's extended music video "Thriller." He said that he had opposed releasing "Thriller" to television. "My idea was to bring back the theatrical short," he said. "I got screwed...
...Currier House Committee rented the mammoth music machine from Woburn Vending. "I wasn't even looking for a video jukebox," says Currier House Treasurer Nancy Cohen '88, "They just had one available. Cheap...