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...grime on the disc's laminated surface. Because nothing touches the disc, there is no wear. Digital records lack the distortion customarily found on LPs in loud passages and near the end of a side, when the sound is unnaturally compressed. The new players are designed to plug into conventional component systems, and the discs will be compatible with any player on the market...
Though GM Chairman Roger Smith claims that the Toyota venture represents only a "temporary" solution, there was another sign last week that Detroit is leaving the manufacture of small cars to someone else. American Motors Corp. indicated that it may soon pull the plug on its archaic Spirit and Concord models. That will leave AMC with only the four-wheel-drive Eagle and the hot-selling Alliance, which was developed and financed by its French partner, Renault...
...some to Home Box Office and Showtime (whose combined subscription base is now 15 million, up 50% from 1981), some to the burgeoning number of cable households (30 million strong, with 350,000 new homes each month), and doubtless some to video games, video discs and other plug-in software. Yet the raw number of network viewers has barely declined, because more Americans are spending more time watching television: the typical TV set is in use almost seven hours...
Telephone makers plug into profits with an array of new products...
...phone as a utilitarian item and look at it as a fancy new entry on a shopping list. Local Bell System companies, as well as AT&T's brand-new baby, American Bell Inc., are beseeching customers to buy telephones instead of leasing them, and even to plug more of them into their homes. Department, specialty and discount stores are getting into the act too, stacking shiny new phones next to the portable TVs and toaster ovens...