From mmoreau@cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 15 02:59:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cam!mmoreau From: mmoreau@cam.ac.uk (Min-jun Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Nov15.025938.6945@cam.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 02:59:38 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Min-jun Moreau Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From htakahashi@demon.co.uk Sat Nov 16 23:01:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!demon!htakahashi From: htakahashi@demon.co.uk (Hana Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Nov16.230138.9333@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 23:01:38 GMT References: <1996Nov15.025938.6945@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov15.025938.6945@cam.ac.uk>, mmoreau@cam.ac.uk (Min-jun Moreau) writes: > Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? > With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. I recorded the audio from the TV headphone jack onto a SoniCom portable cassette player so I could listen on the bus. -- Hana Takahashi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0