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Picturephone|ˈpɪktjʊəfəʊn, -tʃə-|
Also with lower-case initial.
[f. picture n. + phone n.2]
A videophone. Cf. picture-telephone s.v. picture n. 6 d.
A proprietary name in the U.S.
1964N.Y. Times 21 Apr. 31/2 The Picturephone was demonstrated yesterday with a see-as-you-talk call between the World's Fair and Anaheim, Calif. 1965Punch 23 June 912 The picturephone is not yet domesticated. There is an experimental commercial hook-up between New York, Chicago and Washington. 1966Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 27 Sept. tm192/2 American Telephone and Telegraph Co., New York. Filed April 13, 1965. Picturephone. For: See-while-you-talk, sometimes known as visual telephone, services. First use at least as early as April 20, 1964. 1970Nature 25 July 331/1 The first commercial picturephone service was opened recently by the Bell Telephone Service. 1970New Scientist 24 Dec. 565 As befits an executive in a communications company,..Thomas has a Picturephone on his desk, and takes part in conferences by TV. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Nov. 1216/1 Set in the near future (though the only concession to documentary detail is the picturephone over which leading political figures are apt to receive ‘blank-screen calls’). |