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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kodak zooms in on the home-video market...
...Rochester, N.Y.-based giant has hardly been content to relax and let its dominance fade. Kodak spent much of the year preparing to invade the booming $9 billion market for home-video equipment. This week the company will launch its first attack, introducing a self-contained camera-videotape recorder that runs on narrow, 8-mm tape. The device will be smaller, lighter and easier to carry than most items now on the market, which use wider tape. Says Eugene Glazer, a leading photo-industry analyst for Dean Witter: "The new products are going to be very, very important. Small color...
Some experts are already predicting that Kodak, which accounts for about 60% of worldwide film sales, will quickly become a leader of the video field as well. But that eminence could be hard to achieve. Not only is the field already packed with formidable rivals like Sony, but new developments are occurring rapidly. In an apparent effort to upstage Kodak, RCA this week will unveil a palm-size video camera that comes with a separate recorder...
...products and has begun turning to outsiders for help. Kodak last fall bought Bell & Howell's DataTape division, which makes digital recording equipment. Last year it also acquired a Mead Corp. unit that makes ink-jet printing equipment. Industry insiders say that Kodak's new video-camera recorder was developed jointly with Japan's Matsushita...
...totalitarianism finally arrived? Not really. Simply a group of avant-gardists greeting the new year with a public television, cross-Atlantic extravaganza dedicated to George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and "the first media prophet and philosopher." That's the view of the program's creator, Video Virtuoso Nam June Paik, 51, who intends to show television as a "liberating" force, not fraught with the "negative aspects" emphasized by Orwell. To this end, he has enlisted the talents of a curious assortment of the old-and new-wave garde, including Performance Artist Laurie Anderson, 36, Composers John...