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...past four decades, Japan has been showing the world how to take technological innovation and turn it into gold. Examples abound: the transistor radio, the color television, the portable cassette player, the videocassette recorder. The basic technology in these products was invented elsewhere--the transistor and the vcr were born in the U.S.--but superior engineering expertise and marketing flair gave Japan clear dominance of the world of high tech...
Sony and Philips, meanwhile, are trying to wring television-quality video out of compact discs. The two companies, which collaborated to set the standard for music CDs, have come up with a formula that crams 135 minutes of vcr-quality video onto a standard-size CD -- enough to show 97% of the movies now being rented for vcrs, according to a Sony spokesman. Hollywood should love the idea, since the discs are a lot cheaper to make than videotapes and a lot harder to copy, but other equipment manufacturers haven't agreed to adopt the proposed standard...
...cable specials, he was discovered by a group of Disney executives who were having a meeting to discuss new TV projects. "We were sitting in the room practically snoring," recalls Jeffrey Katzenberg, the former Disney movie chief. Then someone put one of Allen's Showtime specials on the vcr: "He set the room on fire," says Katzenberg. "It was like everyone had touched a raw electric wire." Some of the group, including Disney chairman Michael Eisner, later went to the Improv comedy club to see him in person. "It was one of those nights that was magic," Allen remembers. "They...
Then there are another breed, the armchair nihilists. They like their mayhem packaged in movies and VCR tapes. They watch them, Nietzsche on their bookshelves, secure from the effects of a culture of violence...
...committee also discussed a number of possible capital improvements to the house, Chiu said. Such improvements might include refurbishing the VCR room, adding air hockey to the game room and converting one of the house squash courts into either a dance studio or an aerobics room...