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<text id=91TT2164>
<title>
Sep. 30, 1991: Business Notes:Entertainment
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 30, 1991 Curing Infertility
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 52
Business Notes
ENTERTAINMENT
Dances with Defects
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<p> The blockbuster Dances with Wolves may have swept this year's
Academy Awards, but the videotape version of the three-hour epic
has left some viewers and store owners snarling. To load the
entire Orion Pictures film onto a single cassette, the tape's
manufacturer used a thin stock that has sometimes snapped when
rewound. While Orion said last week that about 5% of the
initial 655,000 Dances tapes have proved faulty, some stores
said the defect rate is closer to 15%. The problems stole a bit
of luster from the tape, which has been among the top video
rentals since its release last month. But cash-strapped Orion
denied that it squeezed the film onto one cassette to cut costs.
Orion said video shops prefer single-cassette tapes because they
are easier to handle.
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