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...doubt it. Entertainment works as a private but also a social event. Movies on the VCR don't keep people from going to the multiplex, just as boxing on pay-per-view doesn't stop fans from craving ringside seats. The senses are a huge part of the experience. The smell of popcorn, the crush of bodies, the communal sense of anticipation and the space itself all add to the story of the entertainment. Spaces, architectural enclosures, shape our relation to an event. You can pray at home. But a church, mosque or synagogue gives prayer scale, grace...
...want to rehash all those debates." But this tape was crystalline in its message: it had been carefully edited to exclude all the other candidates, leaving only Bush onscreen with his scripted, repetitive answers and awkward impromptus. The Texas Governor plopped the tape into a VCR, watched it alone at the mansion and got the picture. "I'm a competitor," he told TIME last week. "I want to win. And I'm wise enough to understand that all of us need to improve in life...
WATCH OUT, VCR Electronics companies have been talking about recordable DVD drives for more than a year, but technical quibbles and piracy fears have kept real products out of the marketplace. Until now. Samsung's DVR-2000, which records onto DVD-RAM discs and plays regular DVD movies too, will go on sale in the U.S. in July for $2,000. Meanwhile, Pioneer is planning its own $2,400 DVD-RW version to come out sometime this fall...
...offers the most flexibility is the Matrox Marvel G400-TV, a $300 kit consisting of an advanced graphics card that slides inside your PC (you need a Windows machine with a Pentium II 233-MHz or faster processor) and an external hub that takes analog video from myriad sources (VCR, cable TV, camcorder) and puts it on your computer screen. The accompanying software, called Avid Cinema, provides the easy-step editing tools. The quality of the new video you create is only as good as the original source, however, so you won't be able to touch up that grainy...
...Protesters carried signs with slogans including: "In Sudan it's easier to buy a slave than a VCR," "Teachers AID Slave Raids," "Don't Side with Genocide" and "Educate Don't Eradicate...