Sentences with word «videocassette»

Indeed, Scalia himself noted that the high court came within a vote of declaring videocassette recorders «contraband» when it ruled for Sony Corp. in a case over recordings of television programs 30 years ago.
Thus, the sale to children of videocassettes which the society decides are inappropriate for them can be prohibited.
Released during a craze of what was known as «Full Motion Video», the game recycled footage that was originally recorded for an unreleased console from Hasbro called «NEMO», which in unison with the video aspect of the time, utilized VHS videocassettes as opposed to cartridges or CD - ROMs.
Released during a craze of what was known as «Full Motion Video», the game recycled footage that was originally recorded for an unreleased console from Hasbro called «NEMO» back in 1987, which in unison with the video aspect of the time, utilized VHS videocassettes as opposed to cartridges or CD - ROM.
Douglas Lemza of Films Incorporated, the largest 16 mm film rental company, tells me that classic and foreign film exhibition on the campus is dying or dead, replaced by videocassettes on big - screen TV.
Virtually all of the Rand PG - 13 films that contain violent and sexually violent material are available for sale in videocassette stores.
The concept alone of a deadly videocassette doesn't sound especially gripping, but director Gore Verbinski and American screenwriter Ehren Kruger know exactly how to turn that premise into an utterly arresting experience.
It looks like an old, worn - out videocassette.
Virtually all of the R and PG - l3 films which contain violent and sexually violent material are available for sale in videocassette stores.
At the same time, sophisticated communication facilities are available to a small elite for their personal growth, education, and enrichment, through computer programs, data bases, specialized videocassettes, and a wide assortment of information services.
The number of stores renting and selling videocassettes has increased dramatically during the past decade.
One (Rachael Bella) tells the other (Amber Tamblyn) of this urban legend going around about an unusual videocassette which brings death to everyone who watches it seven days after their viewing.
Under the credits, the film introduced Mr. Jim Phelps (Jon Voight), a first - class passenger on a jet airliner, who first declined a movie videocassette from the flight attendant, claiming he preferred the theater, but then acquiesed when she again asked: «Would you consider the cinema of the Ukraine?»
Those like me accustomed to seeing the Indiana Jones films in the wonder of degraded pan-and-scan videocassettes should rejoice at the sight of these DVDs, which offer higher resolution and preserve the considerable frame width in anamorphic widescreen transfers nearer to 2.35:1 than the 2.20:1 aspect ratios widely cited.
Finally, videocassettes present a major problem, not only because the number of cassette players has increased so dramatically but also because videos are bought or rented, and are therefore legally treated more like books.
Imaginative and exciting education, with specific courses targeted to children, youth and adults, dealing with Christian values and how they relate to current TV, film and video, is tailor - made for videocassette distribution to churches, schools and families.
Produce low - cost videocassettes of the worship service that can be taken to shut - ins.
Besides balls and clubs, divers dredge up all sorts of nongolfing debris, such as 10 - speed bicycles, tire irons and X-rated videocassettes.
Tim Conway fans are most familiar with Schiavelli through his appearances as Conway's dull - witted assistant in the popular Dorf videocassettes.
Next he's signing videocassettes of his movies at a beauty contest in a sleazy nightclub.
The menu wisely relies primarily on visuals from the haunting videocassette.
Before she was a fiercely outspoken activist against the Vietnam War and the star of an incredibly popular line of exercise videocassettes, Jane Fonda was a young actress looking to make it in the industry where her father Henry had found great success.
Widescreen is the only way to see it, and even if the non-anamorphic video isn't great, it's worlds better than a Pan & Scan videocassette, which can not be said for Johnston's first Disney film.
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. is the marketing, sales and distribution company for Walt Disney, Touchstone, Miramax, Dimension and Buena Vista videocassettes and DVDs.
Our prescription: Take two classic videocassettes, climb into bed, and call us in the morning
Terms of Endearment and international mother - daughter films, James L. Brooks interview, Flashdance, The Right Stuff, midsection on cameramen and cinematography, Supreme Court videocassette ruling, John Sayles in Harlem, Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend
I say this as someone who maintains a great fondness for the 1990 videocassette NBA Superstars (which I gladly upgraded to DVD long before it went out of print) that set pro basketball highlights to pop songs of the time.
Advancements such as digital video recording allow schools to record and archive their surveillance without having to label and store space - gobbling videocassettes.
There was a table overflowing with every type of junk food imaginable, a stack of action and horror videocassettes to watch, and a massive pile of Nintendo Entertainment System games to play.
In his video projection Maxell (1990), the image of the well - known videocassette brand logo plays from a tape copied many times over; the word deteriorates into a blur of static as the information on the tape erodes.
While he was not as well - known as others, Lemelson, known as «Jerry,» was one of the most prolific inventors of the 20th century, with some 600 patents to his credit for products like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders and the magnetic tape drive used in Sony's Walkman tape players.
Videocassettes do not come into the home like cable TV.
Audio - Matching the video quality in terms of futility, the audio mix for Natty Gann sounds like an old worn - out videocassette.
Issue 1 was packed with a 30 - minute VHS videocassette, something I'm sure newsagents just loved trying to fit into the magazine racks, that included gameplay videos of Sega Rally, Virtua Fighter 2, and a few other launch - window releases.
Though advertised as progress for all, computer programs, data bases, specialized videocassettes and a wide assortment of information services are, in fact, separating society into the information - rich and the information - poor.
Long - awaited, The Lion King, both the all - time top - selling videocassette and Disney's highest - grossing animated classic, finally arrives on DVD over six and half years after the launch of the format.
Having seen this film in the theatres as a kid and then only on the pan-and-scan videocassette, Less Than Zero looks relatively fantastic here — it's the best transfer for a Fox archival release that I've seen.
The growth of the Landmark chain of revival theaters in the Seventies was brought to an end by videocassettes.
And videocassette stores are subject to zoning and other municipal laws regulating them as retail outlet stores.
Just as many a household has a box full of videocassettes or LP records stored in the loft but nothing to play them on, so plenty of corporate organisations retain disks and tapes that can no longer be read by their IT equipment.
Negroponte argued that, as a consequence of electronic distribution, «videocassette - rental stores will go out of business in less than ten years.»
The size of a videocassette, Feder's device connects to a fax machine.
Ironically, the communications monopolies that were once instruments of control have been broken by new technologies that enable citizens to interact on local and regional levels: fax machines, beepers, videocassettes, and high - tech telephones.
The popular spread of the videocassette recorder, however, clearly shows the latent desire among peoples to do their own programming at a time of their own choice.
Sixty percent of U.S. homes now have videocassette recorders, and this number is expected to increase steadily.
I — along with 29 of my fellows — sat reeling in this vertiginous onslaught of numbers, thrown at us courtesy of a videocassette detailing the history and goals of First Ultra.
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