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...million units this year. The revolution has touched all those involved in preparing the cover package. "A new video store seems to open every month in a New York neighborhood," says Ainslie. "Some of them even deliver." New York Correspondent Barry Kalb, an avowed movie freak, bought his VCR to catch up on all the films he missed during nine years as a foreign correspondent. "In Hong Kong, where we lived from 1975 through 1978," he says, "no movie that didn't feature large amounts of action and violence played in local theaters for long, if at all. Since...
Reporter-Researcher Cristina Garcia, who looked into trends in the Chicago area, does not own a VCR. "But," she says, "I already find myself browsing for films in video stores the same way I shop for books." San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson rented a machine to see what all the furor was about, and promptly ODed on movie tapes. "Strange things happen to rational people when they are faced with rack after rack of ad venture and romance in a video store," he muses. A VCR now heads Thompson's Christmas wish list. The children of Christopher Porterfield...
Staff Writer Richard Zoglin, who wrote the main story as well as a story on the industry, has owned a VCR since 1980. For him it is primarily a professional tool: he has been writing about television for nearly ten years. Zoglin was the TV critic of the Atlanta Constitution for four years before joining TIME in 1983. "At first I didn't want to own a VCR," he recalls. "There is so much on TV, and there are only so many hours in the day. With a VCR, I thought I'd go crazy trying to watch...
Choosing a VCR can be a daunting venture. Currently, retail electronics shelves teem with some 40 different brand names affixed to about 150 models. Innovations seem to happen overnight, and a wide array of options is available, from remote-control devices to one-touch recording buttons. Prices start at a bargain-basement $240 for the older, simpler models and go as high as $1,500 for the newer, more elaborate ones...
...Camp Cinemuck. It's everything you promised me, and worse. I guess you figured that a place that calls itself "the summer home away from home for movie-mad children" would be perfect for a precocious kid who was never far from the popcorn stand or the VCR or the Late Show. So did I. But I was wrong. This place is like school, only with trees. The first thing, I come in and they hand me a bunch of old books about dead movie stars. "You got to brush up on your nostalgia," they say. "What nostalgia...