IV. Group Discussion. The Future of Cinematography

Topic 1. Video: is it a blessing or a curse?

a) Read the text that can serve as a starting point for your discussion.

Video Comes Home

Home video successfully arrived in 1972 when Sony devised its ¾ (three-fourths) inch U-Matic аналоговый формат видеозаписи system. Using a cassette that slipped easily into the

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recorder, it was no longer necessary for the user to touch the tape at all. A few months later, 1/2 (half) inch cassette systems were available at reasonable prices приемлемую цену, and the home video soon began.

One of the main uses of home video cassette recorder is "time-shift viewing просмотр записанных на видеомагнитофон телепрограмм". People can record a programme which they want to watch, but which is on at an inconvenient time, and watch it later on. If there are two programmes which they want to watch being transmitted at the same time, they can simply record one while watching the other. And most video cassette recorders have a timer device which allows people to record their favourite programmes if they go away for sev­eral days.

To begin with прежде всего, the only type of material available on videograms were full-length feature films полнометражные художественные фильмы. Films can go on offer предлагаться вниманию on video within a year of their cinema release.

The range ассортимент has now broadened, however, and there are other types of videogram that can be rented взяты на прокат or bought. These are mainly how-to-do-it tapes. For sports fans, there are tapes about diving, tennis, board-sailing виндсёрфинге, squash игра в мяч с ракеткой, cricket , badminton and many others.

Other tapes include Chinese cooking, learning a foreign language, keep-fit регулярные физические упражнения, self-defence самооборона, yoga , passing a driving test, training dogs, exam revision and growing vegetables.

(From: Film and Video. 1986.)

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