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...such as VCRS and camcorders, and Hollywood's "software" -- movies. Owning a studio, Sony thought, would help give the company the clout to set the industry standard for the next generation of digital video technology. In the early 1980s Sony's Betamax format of analog videotapes lost out to VHS, so Sony was determined not be left behind again. But Sony's strategy turned out to be a mistake when the industry agreed last year to an open standard that no single company could monopolize...
Tapes must be on 1/2" VHS tape and run no longer than 5 minutes. (75 percent of performers in the band must still be in college...
...chairman of Electronic Arts, a leading maker of video games (and the first to treat its programmers like rock stars), he also railed against the electronics industry for failing to agree on a single video-game standard -- a failure that kept the industry locked in the Beta-versus-VHS stage. When nobody appeared interested in building the machine of his dreams, he set out to build it himself. He kept thinking, he says, of an old New Yorker cartoon showing two vultures sitting glumly on a limb. "I'm sick and tired of waiting," one says to the other...
...that will be carried over the information highways no matter who owns them. According to W. Russell Neuman, a communications expert at Tufts University, U S West has profited from the lesson Sony learned when it lost the VCR wars a decade earlier. Sony's Beta lost out to VHS because its competitors made better deals with the folks who held the intellectual- property rights -- in this case, the movie companies. That, says Neuman, is why Sony bought CBS Records and Columbia Pictures. It's also why Toshiba and Itochu bought 12.5% of Time Warner Entertainment...
First broadcast on four consecutive evenings in June 1990, the Metropolitan Opera's RING OF THE NIBELUNG was a high-toned TV spectacular that swept up viewers in the passion and power of Wagner's masterpiece. Now Deutsche Grammophon has released the complete home-video version, on both VHS and Laserdisc, as well as a new recording of Siegfried, the final installment of conductor James Levine's separate CD Ring. With largely the same star cast, including Hildegard Behrens as Brunnhilde and James Morris as Wotan (Reiner Goldberg sings the role of Siegfried on the CD, while Siegfried Jerusalem plays...