roundtable: RE: ENTERTAINING VIDEO O

roundtable: RE: ENTERTAINING VIDEO O

RE: ENTERTAINING VIDEO O

jack@his.com
Wed, 29 Mar 95 21:01:12 

From: jack@his.com
Message-Id: <9503292101.0TJ2B0T@his.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 21:01:12 
Subject: RE: ENTERTAINING VIDEO O
To: roundtable@cni.org


Matt York replies:  "Telcos are common carriers. Cable companies are 
not. They control everything that passes on their wires. If for some 
reason someone on this list had some information that is best conveyed 
in video form, they'd be forced to use another common carrier, the 
post office, to hand deliver the data."

For reasons that completely escape me, the option of mailing cassettes 
is repeatedly dismissed in Matt's messages.  Always a fine option, 
in my opinion, if what you are trying to do is "send" large video 
files from one location to another.  Matt apparently misunderstood my 
message when I pointed out the availability of satellite space (where 
$ speak!), and how cheap transmission is if the receivers have 
receivers (recipients have downlink capability).  From a strictly 
economic point of view, this system virtually without restraint, is by 
far the cheapest way currently available for an individual or group to 
disseminate "large video files" to large numbers of people.

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Jack Hirschfeld                  What do you see when you turn out the lights?
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