Editing Jack Valenti (section)

====Valenti on new technologies====
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Valenti became notorious for his flamboyant attacks on the [[Sony]] [[Betamax]] [[Videocassette recorder|Video Cassette Recorder (VCR)]], which the MPAA feared would devastate the film industry. He famously told a [[United States Congress|congressional]] panel in 1982, "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the [[Boston strangler]] is to the woman home alone."<ref>[http://cryptome.org/hrcw-hear.htm Jack Valenti Testimony at 1982 House Hearing on Home Recording of Copyrighted Works]</ref> Despite Valenti's prediction, the [[home video]] market became a mainstay of film studio revenues throughout the 1980s and 1990s.