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Then, for the maximum degree of difficulty, I went after my ancient VCR, which doesn't even have a remote. It's a legacy from a woman I dated for about five minutes back in 1993--and it was old when she bought it. Ladies and gentlemen, for 10 years I've had to get up and walk across the room every time I wanted to fast-forward through the sad parts in On Golden Pond, but the SL-8000 had my VCR begging for mercy in just under 10 seconds. That did it. I swept all my now superfluous...
...digital. The exhibition’s aims scream high-tech, cool, innovative—but aesthetically, all the gallery offers is three white walls, a yellow lounge seat, a bunch of airline flight magazines and two televisions with a video stand. But then you pop a video into the VCR, take a seat on the lounge cushion, and while waiting for the video to load, grab a magazine. There the art begins...
FLICK DISCS Before you junk your VCR and go totally DVD, be sure to save the glory days captured by your camcorder. To rescue the best footage of your kids' games, recitals and birthday parties, send your tapes to LifeClips.com The company converts a variety of tape formats to DVD for $15 an hour. Digitizing your entire archive can be pricey, but with scene indexing you can, say, skip a missed penalty kick and jump straight to the goal that put your daughter in the family history books...
...solution to this problem, either. Napster was founded on a legal loophole, the premise being that the company would avoid culpability by not hosing music files on its own servers. Its legal argument was based on the 1984 Betamax case, in which movie studios sued Sony because they feared VCR's would lead to piracy. The judge in that case, evincing an understanding of technology more sophisticated than Judge Patel's, ruled in favor of Sony because Sony's customers, not the company itself, were the ones violating copyright. Judge Patel, in contrast, feels that Napster actively encourages its users...
...hell with caribou in Alaska! Don't I have a right to all the energy I need to run my SUV, VCR and DVD? We can put a picture of a caribou on a new nickel so our kids can ask us what one is. Isn't that the American way? ALLEN FRISHMAN Mountaindale...