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Move over VHS ... here comes DVD By Darin Halkides |
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Now pretend the Maxell commercial represents everything you know about home entertainment from the past two decades. If someone created an equivalent commercial for the budding DVD industry, cool guy and his comfy chair would disintegrate into little particles and swirl around inside a vortex of mind-numbing bliss. DVD (Digital Versatile Disc, Digital Video Disc or a meaningless abbreviation, depending on whom you ask) just screams with the thrills of entertainment and new technology. DVDs have better quality and more options than VHS tapes, CDs or any other information-storing medium on the market today. It's easy to say that DVDs could eventually replace every other form of data storage. But before that can happen, there's a mess to clean up. There is a flurry of different formats with an entourage of specs. In a town such as Chico, large enough to have a Circuit City, but too small to get it as a superstore, it may seem like everyone you ask has a different spiel about DVDs. Fret not young techno-Chicoans, because Cat Bytes has done some digging and we've given you somewhat of a local introduction to this fascinating new technology.  |
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Recall,
if you will, the Maxell commercial where that cool guy pops in a tape,
plops into a huge, cozy chair, and puts on a pair of sunglasses before
clicking play on his remote control. Like a gush of wind, Maxell's "high
quality" sound blows back cool guy's hair and tie while pushing him
back against his comfy chair and blowing over his various belongings.|
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