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"DVRs A greater concern for the television industry lies in the publics adoption of digital video recorders (DVR). Introduced by companies likeTiVo and Replay, digital video recorders are essentially networked computers capable of selecting television programs and recording them as digital files. Unlike conventional VCRs, a viewer doesn't need to program a digital recorder to record a certain program at a certain time. A viewer simply selects a title and the digital video recorder finds the program and records it from any channel at any time—whether it's prime time or the middle of the night." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"After we were given a Sony state-of-the-art professional digital video camera, Linda and I realized how we could use this unique camera to visualize systemic memory in a novel way. This camera makes it possible to slow down the feedback process—that is, make the process take more time—so that one can literally see the memory process occur frame by frame by frame. Linda and 1 spent hours witnessing systemic memory expressed in very slow motion. We saw simple patterns grow dynamically and complexly, a sequence of time-delayed temporal patterning never before witnessed by the human eye." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.) "Our mathematical reasoning was transformed into experienced reality through the playful application of digital video technology. If the TV-camcorder feedback system is not "too open" and is set so that the memories expand ever so slowly, a blue screen can catch a brief segment of red (for example, by placing one's finger very briefly in the center of the screen of the monitot) and the light plus electronics will "remember itself and evolve into an all red screen. The dynamically pulsating patterns of reds will then refresh and revise themselves, over and over and over." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.) "We would have also included our own video photographs of evolving systemic memory, created and visualized using modern digital video technology. We have discovered that contemporary visual images of systemic memory can be attractive (viewable at www.livingenergyuniverse.com), a possible new form of dynamic visual art. We learned in their book that the video feedback paradigm had been scientifically investigated by a small group of physicists and published in physics journals." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"The films are made quickly and on the cheap (now on digital video) —usually in less than two weeks and for under $15,000. They're then copied straight to videocassettes and DVDs and sold in open-air markets for about three dollars apiece. Nollywood films are rooted in traditional folktales and are typically family-based melodramas filled with witchcraft and violence. They represent the first time that African stories have been told onscreen by Africans themselves. Despite Nollywood's trite plots and low production values, Africans can't seem to get enough." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Cheap digital video cameras employed by free-speech groups showed people being swept up without cause and without resistance. It turned out that prosecutors selectively edited the official video record to prove their cases, and police officers repeatedly misrepresented the protest events at trial. According to the New York Times, 91 percent of the nearly 1,700 cases ended with the charges being dropped or with not guilty verdicts. A startlingly large number of these cases included citizen videos that clearly showed that the police and prosecutors were lying." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Many protesters used digital video, still cameras, and Wi-Fi connections to document the protests as they happened. Activist Lisa Rein shot video of San Francisco police as they attacked protesters; she describes the scene on her blog: "After the cops rushed the crowd, and [selected] certain individuals and |had] them put their hands behind their backs since they were going to be arrested, the crowd [began] booing and screaming. 'The whole world's watching,' it screams. ('Ha!' I thought to myself, 'I wonder if the crowd or the cops know how true that is!'" - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Shahannah was traveling with a Sony TRV900 digital video camera, 10 hours of digital video tape, power cords, international power converters, a recharger, carrying cases, and other miscellaneous electronic gear. With this video camera we would not only be able to capture exciting video, but we would have the option of taking brilliant digital still shots as well. There was more than electronic equipment." - Christopher Kilham, Tales from the Medicine Trail: Tracking Down the Health Secrets of Shamans, Herbalists, Mystics, Yogis, and Other Healers (Get the book.)

"A viewer simply selects a title and the digital video recorder finds the program and records it from any channel at any time—whether it's prime time or the middle of the night. This feature ends the tyranny of the program schedule once and for all, allowing the DVRuser to make all the programming decisions about what to watch and when to watch it." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "From the perspective of the television industry, the most threatening feature of the digital video recorder is its ability to skip commercials by leaping ahead in 30-second increments—not scan through a commercial as VCR users have learned to do, but to avoid commercials entirely. As Americans integrate digital technologies into their lives, television will not be able to exist as it has for the past 50 years. Will television be able to continue as an advertiser-supported medium? What will happen to television programming? Will we see more limited-run series?" - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

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