From dsato@cern.ch Mon Mar 25 22:23:41 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cern!dsato From: dsato@cern.ch (Dave Sato) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Mar25.222341.9864@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 22:23:41 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. 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. -- Dave Sato "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Atari Falcon 030 / TOS 4.04 From asato@rwth-aachen.de Tue Mar 26 05:07:41 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!rwth-aachen!asato From: asato@rwth-aachen.de (Aiko Sato) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Mar26.050741.3497@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 05:07:41 GMT References: <1996Mar25.222341.9864@cern.ch> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar25.222341.9864@cern.ch>, dsato@cern.ch (Dave Sato) writes: > Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- Aiko Sato Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of RWTH Aachen Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------ From kandersson@cam.ac.uk Wed Mar 27 13:28:41 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cam!kandersson From: kandersson@cam.ac.uk (Kenji Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Mar27.132841.7563@cam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 13:28:41 GMT References: <1996Mar25.222341.9864@cern.ch> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Mar25.222341.9864@cern.ch>, dsato@cern.ch (Dave Sato) writes: > Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Kenji Andersson Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "Hold for relay." From lsilva@illinois.edu Thu Mar 28 07:26:41 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!lsilva From: lsilva@illinois.edu (Lucia Silva) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Mar28.072641.4964@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 07:26:41 GMT References: <1996Mar25.222341.9864@cern.ch> <1996Mar26.050741.3497@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar26.050741.3497@rwth-aachen.de>, asato@rwth-aachen.de (Aiko Sato) writes: > A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- === Lucia Silva === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From otanaka@purdue.edu Thu Mar 28 20:00:41 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!purdue!otanaka From: otanaka@purdue.edu (Olga Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Mar28.200041.9510@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:00:41 GMT References: <1996Mar25.222341.9864@cern.ch> <1996Mar26.050741.3497@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar26.050741.3497@rwth-aachen.de>, asato@rwth-aachen.de (Aiko Sato) writes: > A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. -- Olga Tanaka "Marcus is not one man." 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