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...American consumers who have not settled on whether to buy a VHS or a Beta videocassette recorder, Sony further complicated the picture last week by introducing a new format. Starting in May, the company's new 8-mm video camera and recorder will show up in many stores in the U.S. Price: $1,695. The system uses videotape about half the width of that in VCRs, which are now in nearly a fifth of American homes, in a unit about the size of an audiotape cassette. It will permit more compact playback and recording systems, with quality that...
...Kodak's camcorder, first brought out in 1984, has sold only about 10,000 units. The new format is a big gamble for Sony that could take several years to pay off. It may also be a concession that Sony's pioneering Beta format, once considered technically superior to VHS, has no future. VHS now outsells Beta by 4 to 1. REAL ESTATE Xeroxville, U.S.A., in Virginia...
...ambitious porn films of the early 70s have basically gone missing. Deep Throat is available (though not through amazon.com) on DVD, and Alice in Wonderland on VHS, but most of the others I've mentioned required a video-store or mail-order scavenger hunt to track down. Some, like It Happened in Hollywood and Damiano's The Story of Joanna, I couldn't find even at my refuge for all things weird and esoteric, Kim's Music and Video in the East Village. Even the major research website makes it difficult to find 70s-porno data...
Friday, March 4. Ambulance Ltd. with VHS or Beta, Robbers On High Street and The Cyanide Valentine. 18+. 9:05 p.m. T.T. The Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St., Cambridge. $10. Tickets available through Ticketmaster...
...Washington said it would work to resolve the issue. Too Close For Comfort After only three days in the role, Neelie Kroes, the E.U.'s controversial Competition Commissioner, recused herself from five of Brussels' antitrust investigations, citing conflicts of interest stemming from her past business links. DVD killed the VHS star Dixons , Britain's leading electrical retailer, called an end to its sales of the video cassette recorder. The high-street chain said sales of DVD players now outstripped VCRs by 40 to 1. We'd almost learned to program...