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Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Geosat transmission of news
Message-ID: <1989Jun5.160723.9962@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <371@odi.ODI.COM> <3400@looking.on.ca> <3549@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <3413@looking.on.ca> <1203@ssbn.WLK.COM>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 89 16:07:23 GMT

In article <1203@ssbn.WLK.COM> bill@ssbn.UUCP (Bill Kennedy) writes:
>I don't think that's entirely a fair comparison.  The Vancouver folks
>have hardware sales to subsidize the service (you can't get it if you
>don't have their equipment can you?) ...

The same was true (was to be true?) for Stargate, since they were planning
on using proprietary decoding technology.  (Reliable transmission of data
in the vertical interval of video signals isn't trivial.)
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