Word: qube
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Qube, Warner-Amex's two-way cable service, is just shaking down in Dallas, but there is some apprehension that it may be too good to resist. Customers pay a monthly $9.95 for access to 80 channels and the Qube system, then an additional fee for each of the five subscription channels. There will soon be hundreds of pay-per-view attractions each month that could turn a video freak into an unintentional deadbeat. In conjunction with the Dallas city council, Warner-Amex has discussed setting a debt ceiling for customers. In Columbus, Warner-Amex officials already have...
...features for the future, including longer interviews, perhaps even with some political types. However the format is modified, Playboy and Escapade have a strong start on what is expected to be a thriving part of the cable business. Warner Amex already has an adult service as part of its Qube system in Columbus. Penthouse, promising "more provocative, more controversial and much more stimulating material," may be starting up its cable operation this year, and by 1983 Escapade will be re-christened the Playboy Channel. A lot of folks like to watch late-night TV, but Playboy and its competitors...
...interactive system, much like the QUBE system used in Columbus, Ohio, would allow city officials to poll residents on local issues, and even permit the network to be used for burglar and fire alarms and to monitor energy use, the committee says...
...Qube, developed by Warner Communications, allows viewers to "talk back" to their cable TV sets with electronic keypads. It can be used for ordering merchandise, for sampling viewer opinions, for financial transactions, and for monitoring program viewing patterns...
Through a Qube system, a computer, according to Wicklein, can know "your political views, your consuming habits, your indebtedness, even how often you view porno movies" and sell this information to "anyone in the world...