Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most visible aspect of the computer revolution, the video game, is its least significant. But even if the buzz and clang of the arcades is largely a teen-age fad, doomed to go the way of Rubik's Cube and the Hula Hoop, it is nonetheless a remarkable phenomenon. About 20 corporations are selling some 250 different game cassettes for roughly $2 billion this year. According to some estimates, more han half of all the personal computers bought for home use are devoted mainly to games...
...only substantial weak spot remaining for semiconductor manufacturers is in sales of ROM (for read-only memory) chips, which are commonly used in video games. The chipmakers are stuck with huge inventories of ROMs because of the slump in games sales...
...Lester Crystal, a former president of NBC News, "There is a great deal of smoothing out to be done." Among the snags: "mini-documentaries" on organ transplants and on the decline of a Kansas City stockyard seemed more like unedited slices of life than stories with news pegs, and "video postcards" of nature scenes and Americana reinforced the show's occasional aura of untimeliness...
...medium is his modem, the book-size box that connects his home computer to his telephone and puts him in touch with similarly equipped people all over the nation. "I feel as though a world has opened here in my living room," he writes in phosphorescent characters on his video monitor. "The amazing thing is that I am no longer talking to myself...
Some Disney viewers have complained that the service is too "adult," that its programming is oriented not to children but to nostalgic older viewers for whom the shows are a kind of video déjà vu. Jimirro acknowledges that 20% of Disney subscribers do not have children under 13. But he prefers to see this as a sign that the service offers "something universal...