Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: balkan!wrangler!rescon!bfalcon@cs.utexas.edu (Bob Falcon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Viewer-Controlled Cable TV Message-ID: Date: 19 May 91 12:28:55 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Resurrection Connection BBS, PO Box 531, Bristol, Pa. 19007 Lines: 44 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 382, Message 4 of 13 Hi Pat, all, I just came across this in the Philadelphia {TV Guide} 5/18-24 edition: Dial - A - Flick gets test run If VCTV catches on, your local video store just might replace the phonograph record as America's latest technological relic. By the end of the year, 450 Denver Colorado cable subscribers will be able to order more than 1000 feature films, any time they choose when TCI, the nation's largest cable operator, AT&T and US West begin testing "Viewer-Controlled Cable Television." Unlike pay-per-view , which delivers movies at pre-designated times, VCTV's offerings can be ordered 24 hours a day by telephone or a special remote-control. [ a converter box ? --BF ] Various prices will be tested during the 18-month trial, but are expected to be comparable to those found in video stores. [ around here that's $1.99- $2.99 for the video store and $3.99-$4.99 for our pay-per-view --BF ] This year consumers are expected to spend more than $13.2 billion in video rentals and sales. ---Herma M. Rosenthal [T.V. Guide] ----------- I predict the trial 'test' prices will be to see how much people would be willing to pay [ as usual ] instead of comparable to video store rentals, but that's pessimistic me . I like the idea of VCTV, but I don't even rent pay-per-view movies now, becuase of the prices. Have a good one! Catchya later, Bob Falcon [ Co-Sysop : Turbo 386 Remote Access ] [ 1:273/906 @Fidonet ][ (215) 745-9774 HST/DS ] UUCP: bfalcon@rescon.uucp : { cdin-1 || dsinc.dsi.com } !alba2l!rescon!bfalcon