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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
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Subject: Re: CDTV Idea!
Keywords: CDTV,Networking,Cable
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Date: 6 Jul 90 16:05:52 GMT
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In article <9350@life.ai.mit.edu> thor@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
                                 [...]
Idea about using cable TV to download 3+ Mbyte software to CDTV deleted
                                 [...]
>  All this idea takes is a cable channel willing to sell air time, a device
>to decode incoming data from a cable-box, a transmission format for the data.
>This makes CDTV even more like an 'Interactive' VCR. So instead of downloading
                                 [...]

Well, you only need one more thing: a CD device that can record.  CDTV is
read-only.

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