| 单词 | video dial tone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvideo dial tone video dial tone n. now historical a service enabling users to view television broadcasts, use home shopping services, access computer databases, etc., via a linked telephone and television network. ΚΠ 1988 A. L. Wallgren Video Program Distribution & Cable Television 6 It may be time for Government to develop policies which encourage the provision of a ‘video dial tone’, a concept which could permit access on demand by video programmers, packagers, individuals, at nondiscriminatory rates. 1996 Telephony (Electronic ed.) 10 Feb. Open video systems, once touted as the new and improved version of video dial tone, seems to have met a fate similar to that of its predecessor. 2011 J. Holt Empires of Entertainm. vi. 146 The Baby Bells were now free to provide cable service or ‘video dial tone’, as it was then called, outside their local area. < as lemmas |
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