El
videotex y el teletexto no fueron una simple version electronica del periodico impreso, puesto que las informaciones y contenidos se adaptaron al soporte.
Worldwide
Videotex currently publishes 30 high-technology newsletters monthly, focusing on computers, telecommunications, energy, telephony, biotechnology, and the environment.
Exploring the Role of
Videotex in the International Strategy of the Firm, presented to the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Solomons Island, MD, September 1992.
Newspapers, magazines, trade journals, authors and even college professors gushed about how the new
videotex systems would change the world.
Honeywell's InfoNow
Videotex System, which was introduced in April, is the result of three years of research and customer trials at its
Videotex Support Center in Schiller Park, Illinois, to assess the requirements and cost justifications for business
videotex systems.
In the early
videotex rests there were staged photographs of the test households with well-groomed young couples attentively tapping away at their keyboards and proudly studying the news scrolling on the video screen.
But instead of becoming a "marketing edge for the new world,"
videotex bombed, collapsing into die-hard CompuServe and fledgling Prodigy.
Some of the important applications that are already in the process of adopting JPEG compression or have stated their interest in doing so are Adobe's PostScript language for printing systems [1], the Raster Content portion of the ISO Office Document Architecture and Interchange Format [12], the future CCITT color facsimile standard, and the European ETSI
videotex standard [9].
They assumed the
videotex industry would need
videotex reporters.