picturephone

A picturephone system would depict one person on each side of the line.

The thing was a combination terminal and telephone, possibly even a picturephone.

He reached for the stud at the base of the picturephone on his desk.

The picturephone wasn't working right; the image wavered like a stone seen at the bottom of a rapid stream.

The original Picturephone system used contemporary crossbar and multi-frequency operation.

When P. T. talked with people by Picturephone, they saw the harbor and little else.

Borodinski was on the special picturephone that the General Secretary had set up in his quarters.

But when the PicturePhone came on the market in Pittsburgh and Chicago five years later, he said, very few people bought it.

Made entirely of synthetic materials, the house featured then-startling inventions like the microwave oven and the picturephone.

AT&T Picturephone videophone demonstrations were also featured at the pavilion.

Remember the picturephone?

He avoided revealing this to the people with whom he did business over the Picturephone by wearing shirts that had impressive shoulder pads built into them.

"By picturephone," George replied.

Lisa's Wedding, an episode of The Simpsons which depicted a Picturephone (1995).

It was the 1964 World's Fair, to be precise, the first public demonstration of the AT&T Picturephone.

Every Picturephone line had six wires: the old talking pair plus a video transmit pair and a video receive pair.

But meanwhile he might almost have had a picturephone: before him stood yonder teacher, tall, bespectacled, rumple-clothed, diffident, pipe-sucking, detestable.

Carter and Hawk communicate using a "picture-phone", apparently a video phone similar to AT&T PicturePhone.

But in 1970, when the AT&T Corporation rolled out the first commercial picturephone service in fair-free Pittsburgh, it found more interest from the press than from paying customers.

Teleconferencing veterans with long memories can recall that the AT&T Picturephone, an early video concept introduced at the 1964 New York World's Fair, was a commercial flop.

She guest starred on Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special, calling Pee-wee on his picturephone and singing The 12 Days of Christmas.

To deploy Picturephone service new wideband crossbar switches were designed and installed into the Bell System's 5XB switch offices, this being the most widespread of the relatively modern kind.

It is an intermediate form of videotelephony, first deployed commercially in the United States by AT&T Corporation during the early 1970s as part of their development of Picturephone technology.

The Picturephone service from AT&T appeared to have died a quick death soon after its introduction at the 1964 World's Fair in New York, but the concept actually just went into suspended animation.

When AT&T no longer had a need for imagers, after the demise of Picturephone, on his own initiative, Tompsett transferred his attention to another area closer to the needs of AT&T.