From mlopez@kth.se Mon Jul 10 06:13:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kth!mlopez From: mlopez@kth.se (Mikhail López) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Data: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jul10.061340.7280@kth.se> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 06:13:40 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. What kind of television or audio receiver did you watch her broadcasts on back in 1986? -- === Mikhail López === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From jivanov@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Jul 11 17:08:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!u-tokyo!jivanov From: jivanov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Julien Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jul11.170840.1299@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 17:08:40 GMT References: <1995Jul10.061340.7280@kth.se> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul10.061340.7280@kth.se>, mlopez@kth.se (Mikhail López) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? > Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- Julien Ivanov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Tokyo Department of Information Science. ------------------------------------------------------------ From aivanov@rwth-aachen.de Thu Jul 13 01:33:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!rwth-aachen!aivanov From: aivanov@rwth-aachen.de (Anton Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jul13.013340.8666@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 01:33:40 GMT References: <1995Jul10.061340.7280@kth.se> <1995Jul11.170840.1299@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul11.170840.1299@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, jivanov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Julien Ivanov) writes: > A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. I hated those broadcasts. Canned applause and lip-synced choreography. I wanted real sweat and broken guitar strings. -- Anton Ivanov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0