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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 8:01:03 CDT
- From: Will Martin <wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: 2500 Picturephone in the News
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- Regarding the TV Jukebox channel discussion:
-
- Here in St. Louis, this is an over-the-air service on Low-Power TV
- Channel 58. (I suppose you can also get it through some or all of the
- cable services but I don't have cable so don't know for sure.) Anyway,
- I'm glad the topic came up, since I have several questions about it
- which I've never known where to ask!
-
- 1) Is this a nationwide service, fed from a satellite, so that
- everyone all over the country (or continent, or wherever) is seeing
- the same video at the same time, and there is one master "jukebox"
- feeding these videos in response to te 900-number calls? Or is this a
- localized service in which each region has their own "jukebox", so
- that what I see here in St. Louis may be entirely different from what
- is seen in another region?
-
- 2) Is there one single 900 number for the whole nation, going into
- that "central" site mentioned above, or different 900 numbers for each
- area? Or does a single 900 number feed into separate local
- "jukeboxes" depending on the geographic location of the caller?
-
- 3) Does this system use laserdiscs of the videos or what? Can anyone
- provide a summary of the hardware that drives it?
-
- 4) I note the three-digit codes for specifying songs skip over
- intervening numbers in the index displays -- for example, it could go
- 789, 790, 792, 794, etc. Are the skipped numbers actually invalid, or
- do they still point to previously-advertised selections which are
- still in the system? Is it possible to get these people to send you a
- "master list" of all the three-digit codes and what songs they point
- to if you call one of the 800 numbers they run?
-
-
- Regards,
- Will wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil OR wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil
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