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From: george@idis.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: PBS
Message-ID: <336@idis.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 02:17:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 02:17:36 1985
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Page 21 of the Feb 21 issue of the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
has an article from the "New York Times News Service".
According to the article PBS, IBM, and Merrill Lynch
are arranging a service to broadcast stock quotations
and news on PBS for use with personal computers equipped
with a decoder.

It did not mention any technical specifications.
If the effective bandwidth is large enough,
perhaps Stargate could adopt their encoding.
The benefits of volume, might provide some advantages.

The article said, "[the venture] could bring in
tens of millions of dollars in annual revenues."