Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Flight Simulator, which runs on the IBM Personal Computer, or SubLogic's Flight Simulator II, a version for the Apple, Atari and Commodore machines. More than 200,000 copies of the $49.95 discs have been sold to a diverse corps of enthusiasts, from first-graders bored with their video games to professional pilots who cannot seem to get enough of their jobs. Some businessmen regularly fly to Chicago during their coffee breaks, helping make Microsoft's package the best-selling entertainment program on the IBM PC. The current version lets pilots land at nearly two dozen airports...
Consumers are putting the sets to more varied uses and demanding more from their TVs than just a reasonably clear picture of Dan Rather reading the evening news. First they began playing video games, whose fancy graphics show up best with a sharp display. Now people are showing movies on their TV with laser-disc machines and videocassette recorders, and they want picture and sound quality at home that approaches what they can get in a movie theater...
...less than department stores or specialty shops. Mattioli's American T.V. stores have increased sales from $900,000 in 1970 to an estimated $160 million this year. Says the self-described Crazy T.V. Lenny, whose main store covers an area the size of three football fields: "Innovations in video have been phenomenal, and this makes sales boom...
Last week in Las Vegas the biggest American TV company, RCA, introduced its video products for 1985. RCA brought out a line of 54 color TVs, 18 of them equipped to provide stereo sound and 38 fitted with jumbo screens of 25 in. or more. Early next month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, 350 firms will display their video wares...
...many are smitten with them. Middle-class Americans are going on a video binge, particularly when it comes to VCRS. Since they came on the market in 1976, VCRS have fallen in price from $1,300 to little more than $250. Sales jumped 101% last year over 1982, to 4.1 million units, and may double again during 1984. Coupled with a popular accessory, the video camera, VCRs have also become the preferred tools of home moviemakers...