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Article: Special New TVs, Based on Bay-Area Technology, Go on Sale Today for World's First Enhanced Broadcasts
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- PR Newswire
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- October 1, 1996
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Broadcasters Liken to Addition of Color to TV in 1960s
ALAMEDA, Calif., Oct. 1, /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning at noon today, Japanese TV viewers will be treated to a new type of enhanced broadcasting based on a technology created by a Bay Area company. Additions to regular programming give them, among other things, push-button access to popular golf information, stock quotes, weather forecasts and trivia -- 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 ...