No.56893
Anyone old enough to have used this? Anyone old enough to have used this and ACTUALLY used this?
QUBE was an experimental two-way, multi-programmed cable television system that played a significant role in the history of American interactive television. It was launched in Columbus, Ohio, on December 1, 1977. Highly publicized as a revolutionary advancement, the QUBE experiment introduced viewers to several concepts that became central to the future development of TV technology: pay-per-view programs, special-interest cable television networks, and interactive services.
TL;DR it was an early Cable Service owned by Warner that introduced a lot of the concepts of contemporary cable and though an example of Pay TV, they seem to have not developed the push for it.
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No.56894
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No.56895
I think Minitel, Videotex, and the related TeleText is required knowledge for entering this board, but still will mention them
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No.56896
This is Fallout-esque but perhaps not cyberpunk-y. I do not know what the Fallout Asthetic is called, where it's futurepunk but 50's themed.
This was a device that almost was but wasn't. It was being developed by the US Department of Civil Defense in conjunction with Public Utilities. it was called the National Emergency Alarm Repeater, or NEAR for short. It was built to address the issue that individuals may be too far to hear alert sirens, and would require TV or Radio to hear important information. It was built in the days of Connelrad in 1958. It never succeeded though.
How the device would have worked is if the alert system were activated, this device would sound as a buzzer due to special signal sent through the power line. It would not say emergency information, it would simply buzz.
Among the reasons for it not being finished developed are due to disagreements between the Department of Civil Defense and the various Public Utility companies, as well as the thought that many individuals would not know what to do in the event that it did buzz. Futher, by the time they planned to implement it, CONELRAD was replaced with the Emergency Broadcast System (later replaced with the modern Emergency Alert System)
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No.56897
>>56896
This is a similar system developed by the United Kingdom in the same period. However, this functioned on the telphone line, had voice transmission, and was a direct line from UK Gov to local police precincts rather than the home citizen.
It was called HANDEL
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No.56898
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Another thing that may be introductory to this board is "The Blit", the world's first graphical UNIX terminal. It was a glass smart terminal designed to run for UNIX mainframes, which ran its own Windowing Manager, mpx and mux. Both later inspired 8 1/2 and rio on the Plan 9 system.
It was developed primarily by Rob Pike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blit_(computer_terminal)
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No.56900
>>56898
Another image of The Blit, running UNIX System V.
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No.56901
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The forgotten war: Pay TV vs Free TV
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No.56902
>>56901
A different version of the same commercial, redone by the band Negativland
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No.56903
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Video High-Density, an attempt from Japan to rival RCA's Videodisk, both losing to LaserDisk.
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No.56904
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>>56903
DCC, the Digital Compact Cassette, that became popular in Japan but became an audiophile's niche in the West. In the anime Age of Evangilon, the main character has a DCC player.
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No.56905
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Dataplay, what almost became a universal format, and was a rival of the SD card format. Due to confusion, loss of funding, and much more it ended up being DOA to the point that players are even rare.
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No.56906
>>56902
Do you listen to Over The Edge?
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No.56907
>>56906
Yes, and a big fan of Negativland
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No.56908
Reminder that until reallocation in 1978, UHF extended from channel 13 to channel 89. After 1978, it ranged from 13 to 69 until the Digital Transition, which creates the same channel range but on different frequencies. Most people consider "VHF" and "UHF" obsoleted terms after DTV but I still refer to them as such. They are on the same frequency ranges, after all. I personally hate DTV, as it is giant MPEG videos floating around in the air that are impossible to watch with a weak signal.
Pic is a Telvisior, an early example at mechanical television. The modern television was not invented until Philo Farnsworth created a stable, Fully-Electronic Television in 1927.
The telvisor was a complete non-electric machine with a spinning electronic disc. The electronic television emulates the same method of reception, via cathode ray tube. The Telvisior is mostly forgotten except among the most dedicated of Ham Radio Hobbyist.
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No.56909
The iSmell, an example of "Digital Scent Technology" derived from the failed film technology "Smell-O-Vision". The iScent was an attempt at computer peripheral that would output scent. It used a Printer-like cartridge to output scent, and users could use preset scents or make their own. The goal was to implement this technology to multimedia websites, email attachments, and so-on. In 2006, PC magazine named it one of the "25 Worst Tech Products of All Time", with the comment "[f]ew products literally stink, but this one did–or at least it would have, had it progressed beyond the prototype stage."
It never passed the prototype stage. How humorous that such a novelty would probably be a market behemoth if re-introduced today.
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No.56910
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No.56911
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>>56908
A video of a Telvisor in action.
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No.56912
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>>56911
This video, by the same individual, shows a higher quality Televisor in operation, showing another Black and White broadcast, Eurovision. Ham Radio Hobbyists later developed Color Televisors.
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No.56915
>>56909
>How humorous that such a novelty would probably be a market behemoth if re-introduced today.
How so? for porn?
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No.56925
>>56915
Considering how every nonsense exists now-a-days, including the cringy Selfie Stick, I think it would quickly adopt to a long running fad, where products could even be bought at Hot Topic.
Besides that though, it certainly is cyberpunk as it helps with Augmented Reality.
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No.56933
>>56893
Holy shit, I remember the all-Pinwheel channel that preceded Nickelodeon. That show was great if you were under 5.
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No.56934
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5I2hjZYiW9gZPVkvzM8_Cw
If OP isn't this guy, I'll be surprised. Also, if anyone wants to see a lot of these technologies in use, here you go.
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No.56935
<iframe width="1903" height="729" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UtNGVb94TFE" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Fuck I hope this works. Weird-ass never was technology, lowgrade video with analog audio that fit in the bandwidth of a stereo LP running at normal speed.
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No.56937
>>56934
I am not techmoan but after discovering him earlier this year he's been one of the people I follow. I already knew a lot of what he says but he fills in gaps.
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No.56939
>>56905
I had a camera in between mini DV recorders and Canon DSLRs before the smart phone wave and it used something like this. Encoding was shit tho
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No.56940
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No.56941
Google Lively,
A virtual reality overlay for the web.
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No.56945
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No.56950
>>56941
I looked this up, and this thing looks like nothing new for its time.
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