TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greenberg,Joshua M.
TI  - From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video
T2  - Inside Technology Series
SN  - 9780262274289
AV  - TK6655.V5G74 2008 
U1  - 384.558 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Videocassette recorders
KW  - Video recordings industry-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - How the VCR was transformed from a machine that records television into a medium for movies
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ER  -