Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!snorkelwacker!usc!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CDTV Idea! Message-ID: <7633@gollum.twg.com> Date: 19 Jul 90 21:53:33 GMT References: <9007110253.AA17651@jade.berkeley.edu> <11963@netcom.UUCP> <2536@corpane.UUCP> Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 29 In article <2536@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes: >maffett@netcom.UUCP (Tim Maffett) writes: >>In article <9007110253.AA17651@jade.berkeley.edu> FILLMORE@EMRCAN.BITNET writes: >> This discussion is a little tiresome. In the US at least, (maybe Canada), >>most cable systems offer something called X-PRESS. It goes to all subscribers > >Tiresome? maybe to you but not to me. I called the number for X-Press and >they do not handle Louisville. Louisville is a fair sized city and I >would expect that if *MOST* cable companies carried X-Press, then Louisville >would too. So I think you should ammend your comment to 'some US cable companies >carry X-Press' :-). Of course, Looneyville is one of the last remaining holdouts >of the 19th century, so maybe we are the only place in the US without this >service. It doesn't take a holdout of the 19th century (??I wouldn't describe Louisville that way.. Lexington's much more 19th century, and other parts of Kentucky are even more so.. but this is just a little digression from an ex-kentuckyian) .. Mountain View CA's cable system doesn't have it either. (ARGH!) Well, I asked 'em to send me some information so I can start bugging the cable system into getting this thing. It's a natural for the sort of people that're around here ... -- <- David Herron, an MMDF weenie, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- Sign me up for one "I survived Jaka's Story" T-shirt!