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Other pilot projects are primarily technology trials. In GTE's TV trial in Cerritos, California, for example, engineers tested a video-on-demand system using VCRs preloaded with tapes that allowed viewers to pause, fast-forward and rewind from remote locations. But to keep the technology and cost manageable, the service was made available only to two homes and a pair of elementary schools...
...owned QVC, broadcasts a home- shopping channel produced in Tijuana. People who never before had a car or a credit card now have both. The working-class suburb of Iztapalapa boasts a McDonald's and a Wal-Mart superstore, while the Mexico City slum Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl houses enough VCRS to support a branch of Blockbuster Video...
...pair then drove to Brookline where theyshattered another storefront window and took threemore VCRs and several stereo amplifiers, accordingto the report...
...family constantly called upon to battle with balky computers and weird electronics. I hook up the VCRs and manipulate the laser disc player, and I have yet to come home without Mom asking me to take a look at some mechanical thing in the house...
...random violence, they must plumb the depths of cynicism. Young people do perceive "the violent message" of television, but they are too stupid to absorb anything else, even if it is just as obvious. This comes from men of a generation, which relies on its children to operate its VCRs...