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- From: unkaphaed!rkroll@uunet.UU.NET (Russell Kroll)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: 2500 Picturephone in the News
- Message-ID: <telecom12.684.9@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 22:38:25 GMT
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- Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 684, Message 9 of 11
-
- > 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?
-
- Here in the Houston area, there is a similar channel - channel 56.
- Every so often, it says something like:
-
- CHANNEL 56
- K56DP
- K04NW
- CH. 04
-
- It's called "The BOX" and it has three 900 numbers -- one for ordering
- one video, one for two, and one for three. (I think)
-
- Unfortunately, I can only pick it up if I do some strange things with
- the UHF antenna. The main house antenna won't bring it in!
-
-
- rkroll@unkaphaed.UUCP (Russell Kroll)
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