Meanwhile the same four
giants have joined with Thomson Consumer Electronics of France, and Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Sanyo, Sharp and Toshiba of Japan, to agree a standard for a new generation of digital video
tape recorder.
With its framed comic, tinned ham sculpture, television,
tape recorder and a bodybuilder clutching a
giant lolly labelled POP, Hamilton's ideal home was the manifesto of pop art.