Playboy's Electronic Playgrounds
September, 1997
Used to be that buying a new VCR or cassette deck earned you bragging rights. These days, analog is ancient--it's the digital stuff that counts. Take the new five-inch digital video disc format. Besides doubling a VHS movie's 250 lines of resolution, DVD's vast storage capacity (4.7 gigabytes per disc) enables you to, among other things, watch a movie in letterbox or pan-and-scan format and listen to it in a variety of languages in crystal-clear Dolby Digital Surround. Direct broadcast satellite...
