Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enough to make the most dedicated couch potato feel right at home, even while cruising at 40,000 ft. Last week Northwest Airlines rolled out a Boeing 747 equipped with Airvision, a video system that allows passengers to watch their choice of anything from movies to cartoons on a 3-in. color TV mounted in the back of the seat just ahead. The jumbo jet will fly primarily between Detroit and Tokyo, but if a four-month trial of Airvision earns big ratings from customers, Northwest may install the video service on other planes. Airvision Inc., a joint venture...
...that may be only the beginning of video's move into the jet age. Coming soon from Air Video of Toronto is a small-screen computer-game unit built into a seat tray table. The system, which is expected to be offered on some Canadian Airlines flights this fall, will enable passengers to play two to three games, ranging from chess to variants...
They're in your local video store, but you may have to look hard to find them. Past the shelves of fast-renting movie releases like Dirty Dancing and The Untouchables. Beyond the racks filled with vintage Hollywood comedies, Hitchcock suspense classics and slasher epics. Ah, the Jane Fonda workout tapes; now you're getting warm. Welcome to the wonderful world of original programming for home video...
Ever since VCRs began to catch on, industry gurus have predicted an explosion of fare specially made for the home-video market. The explosion has arrived, in quantity if not in quality. No one knows how many nonmovie tapes have been released, but estimates hover between 7,000 and 10,000. A few genres -- notably exercise tapes, children's cassettes and rock-concert videos -- have established a niche in the market. But the rest are fighting for a relatively tiny number of viewers. Usually produced on a shoestring, these made-for-home-video cassettes are doing well if they sell...
...supposed to be safe. No one needs a hard hat to type a memo or protective goggles to shuffle paper. But as the work force migrates from the shop floor to the corporate cubicle, millions of people face what some think may be a new health hazard -- the omnipresent video-display terminal, or VDT. * Basing their charges on a scattershot array of scientific data, union leaders claim that prolonged work in front of a computer screen can impair vision and cause headaches. Some critics say the work may even trigger miscarriages. The unions' campaign to win mandatory VDT safeguards shows...