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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...?
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To: White Shoes who wrote (6814)1/13/1998 6:20:00 PM
From: Paul Houle   of 13594
 
...What if this reading, as well as entertainment, were available from a smart online service that allowed me to plop down in my beanbag chair, drink a beer, and use a remote device to look at high quality text and images on a 30 inch HDTV?

Now you're talking! But that HDTV screen better be 50 inches.

Trying to use an NTSC interlaced display (today's existing TV) as a display for high (or even moderate) resolution textual and graphic information is ludicrous, IMO. I don't want to read a newspaper like I do movie credits. That's why I'm not big on the current crop of WebTV-type boxes.

I do think that will be one heck of a successful product when the technology supports it better. But not as a retrofit.
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