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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic Newspapers
Message-ID: <8418@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 9 May 89 16:04:57 GMT
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Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <8905090030.AA04820@violet.berkeley.edu> mwm@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike  Meyer, I'll think of something yet) writes:
At this point, there are probably about as many TVs per capita as
>telephones.  That being the case, the methods used to deliver signals
>to a TV are logical things to look at for getting newspaper text to a
>computer.
>

It's already being done for special-purpose data.  If you check with
the uplink services for satellite TV stations you will find that they
are putting data on subcarriers and in the vertical retrace interval.
I'm involved in a project sending agricultural-related data on a
subcarrier of WGN out of Chicago.  It can be received by putting a
box ahead of the video receiver at a dish that can pull in WGN.  Most
cable systems strip the data signals out but they probably wouldn't
have to.

Les Mikesell