Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phone companies are allowed to enter the cable business, they are expected to try to entice consumers to order such high-tech services as video telephones, home shopping and a video-on-demand service that would allow customers to select and receive movies and other programs by phone...
Cable companies, which oppose the FCC proposal, argue that phone users would be forced to subsidize the multibillion-dollar cost of installing wires able to carry both voice and video signals. The possible result: higher phone bills...
...simulation has come a long way in the 60 years since Edwin Link, the father of the technology, first used organ bellows and a suspended box to approximate the motion of an airplane in flight. The box has evolved into an instrument-crammed capsule equipped with color video and stereo sound. The bellows has been replaced by electronically controlled hydraulic actuators. And the illusion of motion has become so powerful that it is indistinguishable from the real thing. Moreover, with a few minor changes, the same technology has been used to simulate everything from spaceships to submarines, from armored tanks...
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Rodney Crowell has a party going on too, and it's also for a video. Out on some piece of road in Wartrace, Tenn., he grabs his guitar and starts lip- syncing the words to I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried. He stops what little traffic there is. Drivers and passengers, none of them recognizable to anyone but their neighbors, climb out of cars, pickups and delivery trucks to join in the song. They all smile, mostly at one another, and dance around...