Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shake-outs and cutbacks are likely to continue. Says Lee Isgur, a leading video analyst with Paine Webber: "Cost-awareness fever has struck. The previous period can be looked upon as cable TV's infancy...
Relax. Just press the play button, then settle back in the Barcalounger to watch the episode of Cheers that you missed last Thursday because of the lasagna dinner at your mother-in-law's. No more guilt or anxiety. No video SWAT team is going to swoop down on your living room, disconnect your VCR, and confiscate the collection of I Love Lucy videotapes that you've been recording for a rainy day. It's all legal...
...Hollywood film and television producers, home taping means getting something for nothing: the consumers are getting something while they, the producers, are getting nothing. The producers dispute the high court's contention that people are only "time-shifting." Consumers, they assert, are building up video libraries of copyrighted material and hence reducing the resale potential of the material to other markets, such as broadcast reruns, cable and prerecorded cassettes. Hollywood still wants what it has wanted all along: some kind of royalty payment from the manufacturers of tapes and machines, perhaps drawn from a surcharge on the sale...
...Christmas television ads, produced by Flashdance Director Adrian Lyne, were disliked by company directors and dismissed by one dealer as "nice foreign movies." Nonetheless, some of Apple's new ads are also unconventional. One early Mac spot features an Orwellian Big Brother and looks like a rock video...
ARRESTED. Paul McCartney, 41, megarich ex-Beatle and rock video star (Say Say Say, Pipes of Peace), and his wife Linda McCartney, 42; both for possession of marijuana, he for the fourth time in twelve years, she for the first time since 1975; in Barbados. Fined $100 each, the McCartneys returned to London, where Linda was arrested at Heathrow Airport, again on possession charges. Said McCartney: "I'd like to see it [pot] decriminalized...