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Originally posted by darksoft
Cable TV is your biggest fucking example of prior art.
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Cable so missed the opportunity to bring innovation to the TV with interactive TV..and remember the sci-fi idea of having 500+ channels? Digital TV today is slowly getting there, but it's as slow as a crawl as ISDN adoption back in the early 80's.
There were Video-on-Demand projects done, but they were using the model of wiring homes with Fiber Optics. I believe that the Acacia's Patent Inventor (Yurt) and USA Video's inventor were thinking (from reading IEEE, etc) that the wave of the future back in the early 90's, was that homes would be wired with Fiber and introduce the ability to have video be delivered on-demand.
If anyone can find VOD trials or documentation before 1990, it would be a big help for prior art finds.
Fight the Patent!