Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THOMAS STEFANIAN brought the first pinball machine to Cambridge in 1957, and for almost 25 years, Tommy's Lunch was the leading-silverball stadium in the Square. But just this spring, the Mt. Auburn hangout divested itself almost completely of pinball, and put all its marbles into video games--even tearing out one dining booth to make way for the expanding arcade...
Even the filmmakers at Walt Disney, long-time champions of the pre-teen set, have not been immune. Their latest movie, Tron, caters exclusively to the burgeoning video class...
...main character in this 90-minute futuristic flick is Flynn, the video addict's hero. He is not too good looking, and he's not terribly clever. But he plays a mean game of Space Paranoids, and his record score of 999,000 turns on plenty of women who hang around amusement arcades...
...then cable and pay TV. Now it is official: small (2½ ft. in diameter), concave dishes mounted directly on homes and costing a couple of hundred dollars could become the newest generation of television receptors. Last week, in a decision likely to have considerable impact on the burgeoning video industry, the Federal Communications Commission voted to give the go-ahead to a new form of space-age television: DBS (direct broadcast satellite). Before too long, by installing rooftop antennas, viewers should be able to tune in TV signals beamed directly from satellites orbiting 22,300 miles above the earth...
...determine what kind of shows should be offered. Indeed, while some new satellite broadcasters say they plan to offer the kind of programming generally available on conventional and cable TV, the satellite-to-home connection could also make the living room TV set into an outpost for more exotic video services. Satellite Television, the leader in the field, has plans for stereophonic sound, second-language sound tracks and teletext (printed matter such as news, weather and stock reports...