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TV & MV Weekly 17.10.2014

Daytime soap classic The Bold and the Beautiful recorded on hologram cubes

The long-running American soap opera legend “The Bold and The Beautiful” has been recorded in its entirety on four optical memory cubes.

The romance & intrigue drama-series totalled around 2,200 hours of programming, and was transmitted - often in daytime slots - from the early 1990s through to 2005. At the time, The Bold and the Beautiful was said to produce a drug-like addiction amongst its more devoted followers, and the series collected large television audiences in several countries, where the original American dialogue was dubbed or sub-titled.

The rights to the series are now held by Microsoft Disney. Robin C. Winnie, Executive Vice-President, Publications, reported this week that MDCorp. has recorded the episodes on hologram cubes largely for the benefit of collectors. Owners of autodidactic computers will also welcome the news, since they have long argued that the dialogue in the series is extremely clear and simple, and because the often convoluted plots cover the full range of human communication, expressions, and misunderstandings. This makes it ideal fare to feed to computers attempting to learn to interact with human users.

Winnie went on to say that the orders for the first cubes had come mainly from the elderly. Many of the buyers had been regular addicts of the series earlier on television, and now wished to see it again from the beginning.

Younger viewers are less enthusiastic about The Bold and the Beautiful. A certain amount of interest has been generated, however, by the version produced for Sony Multivision, in which the original actors and actresses can be replaced by persons from the register of videophone users, for example neighbours and relatives.

Young people are also rather turned off by the old-fashioned passive aspect of the series. They prefer interactive simulations, such as virtual adventures, or multivision productions featuring 3-D emoto-elements. These require a great deal more recording capacity than old movies, however, and hence a hologram cube can accommodate only around three hours of one of the latest programmes, whereas roughly 600 hours of The Bold and the Beautiful can be compressed into the same space.

Microsoft Disney has acquired the rights to numerous other classic series from the TV-era, and Robin C. Winnie announced that the company would be launching some of these next spring. Among the series that fans can look forward to are Star Trek (the space travel cult classic that reappeared in several new reincarnations), Peyton Place (a 1960s drama of life in America), and the popular children’s magazine show Sesame Street. Sony is also reportedly developing multivision versions of these titles that will allow the user to play a particular role and interact with other characters via videophone links.

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