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- From: bender@oobleck (Duke of Canterbury)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Dallas Video on Demand Test
- Date: 28 Jul 1992 08:20:47 GMT
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- klopfens@andy.bgsu.edu (Bruce Klopfenstein) writes:
- :
- : According to the 13 July 1992 issue of TELEVISION DIGEST,
- : USA Video wants to test a video-on-demand service this fall
- : "using one of Southwestern Bell's 2 fiber testbed communities
- : outside Dallas." The technology was tested in SW Bell's lab
- : in St. Louis in June. A compressed movie can be delivered to
- : the home in 3 1/2 minutes using the "equivalent of less than
- : 10 standard video channels for rapid delivery."
-
- How is this possible? Didn't we learn on the net last month that it is
- theoretically impossible to transmit a full motion video signal over
- telephone facilities because the SWR would cause the television receiver to
- explode into oblivion :-)?
-
- Well, didn't we?
-
- mike
-