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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Viacom
Message-ID: <611@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 4-Jul-87 11:43:48 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  4 11:43:48 1987
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Keywords: vision problems, cruft, hack, sausages


Speaking of cable systems...  I was recently on a visit to
Cincinatti.  Several of the Hotels there are on a cable network.
One of the offerings is "The Hotel Information Channel" or some
such-named thing.  It appears to be done on an Amiga with dpaint II
/ digiview images cycling with slideshow.  It was pretty nicely
done, and I bet was running on a pretty minimal hardware
configuration.  They did have one custom feature with the current
time and temperature overlaid on every screen, but that might have
been overlaid by some other equipment.

Fancy video options in hotels and motels seem to be pretty big in
hotel marketing these days.  Seems like there is some decent
opportunity to make money and sell Amigas since there are quite a
few motels and hotels that could be tapped.


I heard that our local Warner-Amex cable system is thinking about
getting an Amiga to run "viacom" since they recently went around
and tightened up all the fittings on their wires, and the picture
has, unfortunately, cleared up. :-)

Bill Mayhew
Division of Basic Medical Sciences
Northeastern Ohio Universities' College of Medicine
Rootstown (what a name!), OH  44272-9989  USA    phone: 216-325-2511
(wtm@neoucom.UUCP   ...!cbatt!neoucm!wtm)