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From: savela@tel2.vtt.fi (Markku Savela)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic Newspapers
Message-ID: <1513@tel2.vtt.fi>
Date: 5 May 89 20:55:41 GMT
References: <8905031352.AA16555@mica.berkeley.edu> <174@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
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Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
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In article <174@marvin.moncam.co.uk>, harry@moncam.co.uk (Jangling Neck Nipper) writes:
> ...
> to ethernet, it's just not going to be practical, is it?  The average, 20
> page full size (ie, not tabloid - does it have a name?) newspaper must
> require several magabytes, including pictures, and ROMs ain't that cheap
> either, so what *are* we talking about here???

   How about some large publisher leasing the spare night time from a
cable-TV channel? Each subscriber would have an advanced "black box"
which could unscramble the signal and feed the paper to the
workstation memory. The paper could be transmitted several times
to catch transmission errors. All this would happen unattended during
the night.

   By leasing the channel for 24 hours, the paper could be updated
any time.  In this case the paper would actually form incrementally
from the updates. Latest news any time you wish to read them.

   The workstation could have own monitor or it could utilize the HDTV.
--
Markku Savela