Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 07:50:59 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: pete@sms.fi (Petri Helenius) Cc: eivind@yes.no, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com Subject: Re: "Windows 98" Message-ID: <199803190650.HAA02277@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199803190707.JAA15835@silver.sms.fi> from "Petri Helenius" at Mar 19, 98 09:07:28 am
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> IMO, broadcasting the junk over airwaves is too error prone and > kludgy, just use the WWW from the television station like: > http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/ remember, teletext was there 15 years ago -- in the homes -- and it doesn't cost you a phone call to get the data. On top of this: you live in a small (population-wise) and probably well networked country. The italian tv site www.rai.it offers teletext pages using a crappy program running under a windows server and probably behind a very slow line. Usually, 90% of the requests for teletext pages time out, the remaining 10% reply "this server is too busy try later". This is why, when I put teletext pages on my web server back in 1995, the info leaked out and our site become very popular, getting up to 10K requests/hour for teletext pages. And i am still getting complaints from people because i removed the pages after RAI, two years after declining our request/offer to distribute the pages on the net, put up its marvelous www black hole. > How many TV sets have point-and-click interface!? some do. a lot of cheap 1992-class TVs can identify links on the teletext pages and browse through them using the arrow keys on the remote control. better than a mouse. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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