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Article: Special New TVs Go On Sale Today for World's First Enhanced Broadcasts

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ALAMEDA, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning at noon today, Japanese TV viewers will be treated to a now type of enhanced broadcasting. Additions to regular programming give them, among other things, push-button access to popular golf information, stock quotes, weather forecasts and trivia questions and let them vote-by-remote for their favorite snowboard, theme parks and actors. This new technology is dramatically different from the current trend towards Internet-over-TV.

And Japanese stores begin sales today of special TVs and related products that support this new type of enhanced ...

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