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Learning from the Betamax vs. VHS wars in the video market, DVD manufacturers have agreed to a single set of specifications. Also, many Hollywood fears of pirating have been addressed with the announcement of a uniform copyright protection standard...
...meat-and-potatoes product is DVD video, which is meant to send vhs and laser disc the way of all eight-track. Two dozen models of DVD players should reach the market this year at prices ranging from less than $500 to more than $1,000. All offer DVD's stunning sound and vision, along with the various bells and whistles that digital storage's interactive ease and sheer data acreage allow, including PG- and R-rated versions of a given movie on one disc, multiple languages, no rewinding, movie-and-game pairings, instant searches and every custom setup...
...important as any jet fighter or bomber in the infowars of the future. A TIME reporter, the first journalist allowed to tour the $70 million plane, found the fuselage stuffed with more electronics than a mallful of Radio Shacks: secure fax machines and computers, cassette decks, compact disc and VHS tape players, and powerful transmitters. This gear allows the plane's 11-man crew to jam a country's TV and radio broadcasts and substitute messages--true or false--on any frequency...
...companies are also engaged in a fierce fight on the technological front. Sony and Sega are following 3DO's lead, using 32-bit processors and double-speed CD-ROM drives with sufficient capacity to store VHS-quality video images and CD-quality stereo sound. Nintendo, striking out on its own, is opting for a higher-powered, 64-bit chip, and will store its games on high-capacity, plug-in cartridges instead of CD-ROM discs. Nintendo says this will enable it to offer both a lower-cost system and the blistering speed demanded by its target market: adolescent boys...
...Internet. Yes, information theorists talk endlessly about the debate over commercialism on the net, about its scientific and academic uses. But what of the use of the net for more. Shall we say, "private" endeavors? Pornography has always driven new media; recall, if you will, the popularization of the VHS VCR, fueled largely by the availability of skin flicks on VHS format. Without touching upon the moral and social argument which surrounds the issue of erotica, the fact remains that people want to get off, and they want it in large enough numbers to warrant a huge industry devoted toward...