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kanefsky@datamagic.com (Steve Kanefsky) wrote:

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>I thought I'd post an aritcle that was posted to rec.video.satellite.dbs
>about MSN.  The juicy part is near the end:

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>>From  Electronic Engineering Times, August 14th, 1995, page 79:

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>Most of the data traffic is envisaged as broadcast data, i.e., every pertinent 
>news story can be telecast every few seconds. Imagine what you could do with a 
>21-Mbit/second data delivery stream that can reach all or part of your 
>customer audience every few seconds from Miami to Maine? The demo that blew 
>away nearly every one of the 3,000 attendees involved a simulcast of a "Batman 
>Forever" MSN show held concurrently with the Pay-Per-View window of the Warner 
>movie. A video jockey (VJ) holds MSN PC TV viewers' attention while pointing 
>out that a Fanzine has just been downloaded to the user's hard disk. (By the 
>way, the user's system configuration and user statistics have similarly been 
>sent back to MSN over an internal high-speed modem.)
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>Then the VJ says: "Now, just hold your Timex/Microsoft DataLink watch up to 
>the screen for a big surprise!" The PC TV viewer's reward: a $1 coupon for 
>your next meal at McDonalds was downloaded into the watch's CMOS memory and 
>display! No paper. No printers. It was loaded directly into the DataLink 
>watch's memory.
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