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...their own 3-D home videos. One enterprising California firm, 3-D TV of San Raphael, markets a $189.95 "video lunch box" that includes stereoscopic goggles, a 3- D videocassette and a plug-in adapter that permits 3-D movies from the past to be shown on today's VCRs. "Interest in 3-D has never been greater," says 3-D TV founder Michael Starks, whose offerings include Cat Women of the Moon (1953), Outlaw Territory (1953) and The Stewardesses (1969), a lame R-rated adult film that is reputed to be the biggest-grossing 3-D movie...
...show's success points up a milestone for the home-video revolution: with VCRs now in 67% of American homes and camcorders in about 10%, broadcast TV is starting to tap home video for material. Two current series, PBS' Sneak Previews Goes Video and the syndicated Inside Video: This Week, provide weekly reviews of movies and other fare released on video. KOIN-TV in Portland, Ore., airs We're Makin' Movies, a weekly show featuring amateur videos sent in by local residents. A syndicated program called $1,000,000 Video Challenge, which will award cash prizes for the best videos...
...money. The rich have the same limit; it just takes longer to get there. Stories abound of well-heeled users smoking their way through trust funds, savings accounts and charge-card credit lines. Some take out second mortgages and go on to sell jewelry and household items like TVs, VCRs and answering machines...
...tools, we should buy the best, regardless of origin, because it's in our long-term self-interest to do so. The best tools | make for the most competitive products. But when it comes to trinkets, we should think twice. Of course, with a lot of today's trinkets -- VCRs and camcorders, to name just two -- there's no way to buy American. The only choice is whether to buy at all, or whether, perhaps, to invest that money instead...
...mere .7 rating, meaning that just seven cable households per thousand tuned in, one twenty-fourth of the audience typically commanded by each of the Big Three newscasts. Said a top NBC news official: "I'm more concerned about erosion of our audience from nonnews sources ((entertainment shows, VCRs and so on)) than competing news sources. I don't think this is going to make any difference to us." Of course, that's what the Big Three used to say, with misguided optimism, about CNN as a whole...