IBM unveils plan to expand multimedia; computer giant and NBC seeking ways to offer video clips on demand
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IBM unleashes a torrent of multimedia announcements. The company believes that its mainframes are ideal for handling the high demands of digitized video signals. In 1993, IBM and NBC plan to run a pilot project that will provide companies with NBC and CNBC business-related broadcasts on demand. Companies could call up the clips on microcomputers and use them to make internal video news programs. IBM faces cultural barriers in its bid to enter the multimedia market. Most innovators in the field are working with smaller computers, especially Apple Macintoshes, and disdain IBM's corporate image. Analysts say that IBM's basic assumption that multimedia is just another variety of computer data has yet to be proven. Most competitors and consumers are apt to put off a decision on multimedia until they see what IBM's rivals, especially Microsoft Corp, have to offer.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1992
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IBM sets sail for new electronics world: it seeks role in computer-entertainment industry
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IBM is seeking a role in an emerging industry combining computers, consumer electronics and entertainment. IBM sees itself as a major provider of products such as hand-held personal communicators, interactive TV systems and computers that display video images. Still, the gigantic computer maker faces major challenges in transforming itself into a key technology provider for the entertainment industry. IBM has already formed cooperative arrangements with Seiko Corp, Blockbuster Entertainment Corp, Bell Atlantic Corp and Polaroid Corp. The Blockbuster project involves self-serve kiosks in music stores that would be able to make CD-ROMs on demand, while the Polaroid project is to develop a digital camera that should be on store shelves by early 1994. The camera will be able to display pictures on a personal computer screen.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1993
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IBM's plan to reduce VDT radiation fails to impress most computer makers
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Other computer companies will probably not follow IBM's lead into production of lower-radiation VDTs. Subsequent to IBM's announcement that it would reduce the electromagnetic fields generated by VDTs, only DEC said it has plans to offer additional low-radiation VDTs. DEC currently has two models of VDTs that offer reduced radiation at a cost of about $200 more than standard machines. In the future, DEC will only release VDTs that meet the stringent standards enforced by the Swedish business community. The introduction of lower-radiation VDTs is well-received by US unions, although there is no evidence that electromagnetic fields have ill-effect on users.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1989
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