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- <text id=92TT0187>
- <title>
- Jan. 27, 1992: Business Notes:Technology
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 27, 1992 Is Bill Clinton For Real?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- TECHNOLOGY
- A Coup for Couch Potatoes
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- <p> If VCRs, cable television and take-out food keep you
- homebound and party-shy, interactive TV may shut down your social
- life altogether. Last week the Federal Communications Commission
- paved the way for the proliferation of a technology that
- permits TV owners to bank, pay bills and order everything from
- Chinese food to tennis shoes through the boob tube. A
- remote-control device accesses menu screens offering up the
- various services.
- </p>
- <p> The product of Virginia-based TV Answer Inc., interactive
- television transmits data via radio waves to a base station
- linked by satellite to the firm's headquarters. The systems will
- be available in 25 major cities by the end of this year. While
- the concept may be a boon for exhausted nine-to-fivers too weary
- to dial Domino's, it may be a bane for parents of the always
- hungry twelvesomething set.
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- </body></article>
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