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...thawed and inserted, a few at a time. But whether it works or not is of much less moment to Pamela and Jonathan now than it would have been two years earlier. As baby Alex sits in the living room, engrossed in a music video playing on the VCR, they know full well that they are already ahead of the game...
...furniture section of the Harvard Coop on Friday afternoon with her mother. "I need a stand for my printer that I can put together without a craftsman's degree," she said. "I might buy a bean bag, too. My roommates and I are bringing a refrigerator, TV and VCR from home...
...repeat the glowing predictions of the past. But it would be equally foolish to pronounce the Information Age a hoax. If the industry is to meet its own projections, however, it must recognize that most people are intimidated by even moderately high-tech products -- think of programming a VCR -- and must refine its products and services accordingly. But all that may be just part of the Information Aging process...
...road to hackerdom starts modestly enough. All anyone really needs for editing videotape is a camcorder and a VCR to copy selected segments from one tape onto another. Unfortunately, most camcorders and VCRs intersperse their cuts with irritating patches of electronic noise and make duplicates that look as if they've been smeared with a video paintbrush. So the would-be video artist soon finds himself trading in his primitive equipment for improved models (costing up to $1,200) with "flying erase heads," which allow smooth splicing, and one of the new formats (Hi8 or S-VHS) that...
...editing on a VCR calls for extraordinary patience and split-second timing. That's where the computers come in. With an automated editing machine -- like Videonics' $599 DirectED PLUS -- instructions for making cuts can be punched into a keyboard as the footage rolls by on a TV screen. The computer remembers the markings, and when the tape is played again, the machine automatically splices together the chosen sequences. Computers can also be used to generate titles, graphics and fancy scene shifts -- like the "tumble," in which one image seems to turn over to reveal another...