| 释义 |
Phonevision|ˈfəʊnvɪʒən|
[f. phone v. + vision n.]
The proprietary name of a pay-as-you-view television system (see quot. 1951).
1950N.Y. Times 10 Feb. 42/3 The Zenith plan involves the use of so-called ‘phonevision’. By this method, special programs are televised in scrambled form so they cannot be picked up on any ordinary receiver. A subscriber, however, can receive the program by telephoning his local exchange and establishing a connection between the television set and the telephone system. 1951Life 5 Feb. 43/1 Phonevision, or PV,..offers a way of bringing movies straight into the family parlor. Under PV, a television set owner learns that a certain movie is being scheduled at a given time. It goes out over a TV channel and shows on his set as a confusion of blurs. If he calls the Phonevision switchboard, an unscrambling device on his set, which is hooked up to the phone wires, is turned on and the blurs become a clear picture. 1953Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 8 Sept. 281 Zenith Radio Corporation—Phonevision. For Radio and Television Transmitting and Receiving Operations and Parts Thereof. Claims use since June 13, 1947. 1975New Trends in Cable Television (Com Quest Corp.) iii. 51 Zenith Radio Corporation developed the first commercially used pay-television/broadcasting equipment under the tradename Phonevision. 1978CATV Market (Frost & Sullivan, Inc.) iv. 65 This Phonevision service was offered under a special permit from the F.C.C. |