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Eventually, though, the Mavica or a similar electronic camera is likely to find an important consumer market. Many home moviemakers are already scrapping their old Super-8 cameras in favor of amateur video cameras and recorders. The TV cameras work as simply as movie cameras but produce pictures with sound that can be seen instantly on a home television set with a videotape recorder. Sony predicts that the Mavica will soon take its place in the evolving home entertainment center alongside video computer games and videodisc players showing Hollywood movies...
...Jersey suburb of Saddle River. He's now trying to unload, for $2.9 million, the East Side Manhattan town house he bought for $750,000 just two years ago. Jimmy, the youngest, is usually down home in Plains, Ga., watching his life pass before him on the video screen of his word processor. Last week the two took time out for trips abroad...
...jargon of the video revolution, this exotic antenna and its associated electronics are called an earth station, and the price is just as fancy as the name: from $3,500 to $14,000 for a good unit. The high tab is for high tech. An earth station pulls in a signal from one of the twelve U.S. and Canadian communication satellites beaming down from a fixed position 22,300 miles above the equator-what vid-whizzes call a "geosynchronous orbit." The signal is focused into an amplifier, which magnifies it up to 100,000 times before it is converted...
...Although video freaks may think of themselves as space-age ham operators, innocently tuning in on whatever signals bounce about in the ether, satellite programmers consider them electronic buccaneers and mutter darkly about "tapping," "free-lunching" and "unauthorized reception." Among the toughest in its stance has been Time Inc.'s Home Box Office, whose chief counsel, John Redpath, says the company is considering "all possible alternatives to stop" unofficial signal reception...
Both products provide amazingly realistic scenes of life in a control tower. With Air Traffic Controller, a radar-like air map on the video screen displays two airports and two navigational reference points. Off to one side, the speed, altitude and destination of incoming traffic are recorded. The player is supposed to shepherd 26 planes, while constantly watching to make certain that no two planes collide. He has between 16 and 99 min.to guide all the aircraft to safety. If he makes a fatal mistake, the dreaded word "conflict" flashes on the screen...