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- From: smitty@es.com (Maurice Smith)
- Subject: Re: Curious: TV in a window...
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 15:10:15 GMT
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- In article <2A7377EE.708F@deneva.sdd.trw.com>, blanford@spf.trw.com (Ronald P. Blanford) writes:
- |> Jay Steele writes
- |> > As I was leafing through the May issue of Byte magazine
- |> recently,
- |> > I saw an add for a board which allowed television signals to
- |> be
- |> > displayed on a window. I mentioned to a nearby friend that I
- |> > thought it was pretty interesting, and he abruptly responded
- |> > "Why... It serves no practical purpose."
- |> >
- |> > Well, my [limited] knowledge of multimedia tells me otherwise.
- |> > What are some of these apparantly non-existant "practical
- |> purposes?"
- |>
- |> Well, I can think of two just off the top of my head.
- |>
- |> 1. Using serial control of a laserdisk, you can have a
- |> customized, interactive educational game similar to the arcade
- |> ones.
- |>
-
- Or better yet you can found a company and sell multi-media
- training to large companies for large bucks. (Re: Allen
- Communications). Video in a window is the keystone, PC
- based training is peanuts without it. Your friend probably
- thinks babies are of "no practical purpose".
-
- |> 2. With enough processing power (and a 486 has it) you could
- |> inspect and capture significant news stories from CNN. The
- |> military would have loved that capability to help generate
- |> briefings during the Gulf War.
- |>
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