From bgonzalez@tum.de Sat Dec 09 03:59:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!bgonzalez From: bgonzalez@tum.de (Bastien González) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Dec09.035931.5106@tum.de> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1995 03:59:31 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 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. Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Bastien González Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From bsantos@pacbell.net Sun Dec 10 11:46:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pacbell!bsantos From: bsantos@pacbell.net (Bruno Santos) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Dec10.114631.4109@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 11:46:31 GMT References: <1995Dec09.035931.5106@tum.de> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Dec09.035931.5106@tum.de>, bgonzalez@tum.de (Bastien González) 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. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Bruno Santos Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "Row 14. No joke."