From Betamax to Blockbuster : Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video.
Greenberg, Joshua M.
From Betamax to Blockbuster : Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (228 pages) - Inside Technology Series . - Inside Technology Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Videophiles and Betamania: Hacking the VCR -- 2 "Hollywood in a Box": Reconstructing Videotapes as Transparent Media -- 3 Retailers -- 4 Movie Culture in the Video Store and at Home -- 5 Retailers, Employees, and Consumers -- 6 Building Closure Around Video (Stores) -- 7 The Thin Line Between Movie and Technology -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Notes on the videostoreproject.com Website -- Notes -- Index.
How the VCR was transformed from a machine that records television into a medium for movies.
9780262274289
Videocassette recorders.
Video recordings industry-History.
Electronic books.
TK6655.V5G74 2008
384.558
From Betamax to Blockbuster : Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (228 pages) - Inside Technology Series . - Inside Technology Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Videophiles and Betamania: Hacking the VCR -- 2 "Hollywood in a Box": Reconstructing Videotapes as Transparent Media -- 3 Retailers -- 4 Movie Culture in the Video Store and at Home -- 5 Retailers, Employees, and Consumers -- 6 Building Closure Around Video (Stores) -- 7 The Thin Line Between Movie and Technology -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Notes on the videostoreproject.com Website -- Notes -- Index.
How the VCR was transformed from a machine that records television into a medium for movies.
9780262274289
Videocassette recorders.
Video recordings industry-History.
Electronic books.
TK6655.V5G74 2008
384.558