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From Betamax to Blockbuster : Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Inside Technology SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (228 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262274289
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From Betamax to BlockbusterDDC classification:
  • 384.558
LOC classification:
  • TK6655.V5G74 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: How the VCR was transformed from a machine that records television into a medium for movies.
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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.

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