the average family home. cory practices her violin. christian plays with his cars. and mike and carol worry over the bills. we went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology that s been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators, tv, oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. hello? i m not here now, but my faithful machine is. there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering machine. you d be driving home and you d say, i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it had become part of the day. honey, i m checking my messages. from the noisy streets of new york to the laid-back tranquility of california, americans are tuning out and tuning in. when i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. the walkman was huge. it s the latest fad. tiny st
the average family home, cory practices her violin, christian plays with his cars and mike and carol worry over the bills. we went in with pretty much the same technology that s been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators. tv. oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. hello? i m not here now but my faithful machine is. there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering machine. you would be driving home and you would say i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it becomes part of the day. honey, i m checking my messages. from the noisy streets of new york to the laid-back tranquility of california, americans are tuning out and tuning in. when i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. the walkman was huge. it s the latest fad. tiny stereo casset
the movie studios said this violated the copyright laws and sued the home recorder manufacturers for allegedly instigating widespread in the home law breaking. you cannot have high-class entertainment if 50 million taping machines are out there in an unauthorized fashion with no compensation to owners, taking from them what rightfully belongs to them. the supreme court today answered a multibillion-dollar business question affecting the wallets of millions of americans and one of the nation s fastest growing forms of recreation. home videotaping. the court ruled 5-4 that use of the home machine to tape programs is legal and violates no copyright law. not only did the movie industry lose that one but they were totally wrong. the vcr turned us into a nation of movie nuts. it may be the fastest-growing business in america. the sale of video cassette tapes that people buy, or more often rent, to play at home on their video cassette recorders.
video cassette tapes that people buy or more often rent to play at home on their video cassette recorders. more than 24,000 retail outlets across america now sell or rent tapes of all kinds. you go to a video store and pick something out that you missed. in the old days if you missed a movie, you would miss the movie. the market s not restricted to blockbuster films. jane fonda through her workout tapes has shown one can make money with a product geared specifically to the home video market. the success of camcorders marks the second phase of the video revolution. not just taking movies home but making them at home, and anywhere else you happen to go. i was a kid who had a camcorder. it was the size of kentucky. it had to be, because it played vhs cassettes. it can be used by just about anybody. its advantage over film is about to revolutionize the industry. there s no developing. you can rewind and record over it if you didn t like the take. that is an enormous shift.
law. not only did the movie industry lose that one but they were totally wrong. the vcr turned us into a nation of movie nuts. it may be the fastest-growing business in america. the sale of video cassette tapes that people buy, or more often rent, to play at home on their video cassette recorders. more than 24,000 retail outlets across america now rent or sell tapes of all kinds. you go to a video store and pick something out that you missed. in the old days, if you missed a movie, you d miss the movie. and the market s not restricted to blockbuster films. jane fonda through her workout tapes has shown one can make money with a product geared specifically to the home video market. camcorders marks the section phase of the video revolution. not just taking movies home but making them at home. and anywhere else you happen to go. i was the kid who had a camcorder. it was the size of kentucky, and it had to be, because it played