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...technology is called CD-ROM, for compact-disc read-only memory, and the disc can be "played," with the help of an attachment costing $400 to $900, on most personal computers. The TIME newsdisc, titled Desert Storm -- The War in the Persian Gulf, will include TIME stories and charts, scores of unpublished photographs, sound recorded from radio and TV, and files from our correspondents in the field. Users can call up different pieces of information at the click of a mouse. Says executive editor Dick Duncan: "It gives the reader-viewer a first raw cut of history...
Duncan and Warner New Media president Stan Cornyn initially conceived of putting the war on CD-ROM on Jan. 17, and within 24 hours Warner producer Linda Rich was in New York, collecting material and introducing our staff to the world of multimedia digital publishing. Working with TIME director of development David McGowan and researcher Nina Barrengos, she drew up a plan for the disc, began conversion of files and war photos to computer format and even tapped deputy chief of correspondents Barrett Seaman's telephone line to the gulf. In one conversation between Seaman and correspondent Scott MacLeod...
...including his own premature death at 34. But Benedetti left behind an extraordinary legacy: a cache of impromptu recordings that he had made of Parker's live performances in 1947-48. Now this long-lost treasure has been rediscovered and issued as a 10-LP or seven-CD boxed set. Though the nine hours of music -- consisting mostly of disembodied Parker solos--can be taxing on the casual listener, the set uniquely documents one of Bird's most fertile periods and is thus a must-have for any serious jazz fan. (35 Melrose Place, Stamford, Conn...
...Stateside existence bound up in a series of legal maneuvers by record companies and music publishers who feared that its crystalline sound would encourage a ruinous splurge of home copying. The legal battling over DAT duplicating has been effectively resolved, with the advantage going to the tape: a CD can be copied without even fractional loss of sound quality onto a DAT tape. But the equipment will prevent that copy, even though it can be duplicated on conventional analog cassettes innumerable times, from being copied on another digital tape. Got that? There will be a quiz Monday morning...
Unlike portable CD players, the DAT Walkman isn't susceptible to skipping when the going gets rough. (Sony has also introduced a DAT deck for cars.) The catalog of prerecorded DAT tapes (typical price: $20) is just beginning to build up, with only about 175 titles available. But as Hirayama Toshikatsu of Panasonic's audio division points out, "The majority of users want to create their own tapes with their own selection of music." Sony spokesman Tsutomu Imai agrees. "Software was important because the CD player was a playback- only machine," he says. "It had to have prerecorded music...