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...than 70 high-tech firms, led by Microsoft and Tandy, gathered at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to unveil the Multimedia PC (MPC), a souped-up personal computer that can play games, video and interactive programs stored on silver discs that look like audio CDs. Prices start at $2,800 -- or about $800 more than an ordinary PC. One week earlier, former archrivals Apple and IBM revealed plans to start a joint venture, Kaleida, charged with designing their own version of multimedia computers...
...player that can be hooked up to a standard TV set to play all manner of games and run interactive programs. Five years in the making, the VCR-size unit joins CDTV, | a similar machine that was introduced by Commodore in January, and CD-ROM, a system for playing CDs on Apple and IBM-compatible personal computers. Even Nintendo has announced plans to attach a compact-disc drive to the latest version of its video-game machine. "After years of public relations hype," says David Bunnell, publisher of a start-up magazine called NewMedia, "multimedia finally is for real...
Today there are hundreds of multimedia videodiscs and CDs for sale or in development. Most are fairly straightforward elaborations of products already available as books or on traditional computer disks. But some of them take advantage of the power of the new media to achieve extraordinary results. Among the best are a series of videodiscs from ABC News InterActive that allow users to explore subjects like the AIDS epidemic or the life of Martin Luther King Jr. by roaming though film and video clips culled from ABC's extensive library of news footage. In some cases, these clips are supplemented...
...with clients to reach the best investment decisions; they sell the bank's underwritten securities and other securities the bank holds on its books. In the US this might include common and preferred stock, options, and international stock. Fixed income is the area that includes corporate and municipal bonds, CDs, and money markets, among many others. One popular offering in the eighties was junk bonds...
Finding his new audience has proved difficult. He forced his new distributor, MCA, to sell his tapes and CDs without longboxes, because they contained unnecessary packaging. But retailers argue that abandoning the longbox makes shoplifting easier and requires refitting store fixtures. So many major chains have refused to stock Evergreen Everblue. He is also upset that this album was not reviewed as adult music...