User:Salvidrim!/Videoway

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Videoway was the first adressable interactive television entertainment system in North America, offered by Vidéotron from 1989 until its gradual replacement by Illico starting in 1999, up to Videoway's official discontinuation on April 26th, 2006.

Videoway was a set-top box connected to the subscriber's television, and was used as a decoder for scrambled channels, as a gaming platform and video on demand rental service, as a well as several Telidon-powered telematics providing information to viewers about topics including weather, lottery results and stock market values.

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Origins[edit]

In the mid-seventies, André Chagnon, Videotron founder, with the help of his son and a UQAM programming professor, bought Apple II computers and set up cable TV channels where their screens were broadcast. Over forty videogames clones were created by Chagnon's son to replicate popular games such as Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator and Chess, but the games were made to accept input from the TouchTone phones of subscribers calling in from their home one at a time and being put through automatically to specially modified tape-based answering machines.[1] Chagnon tapped the same team to later create what eventually became Videoway.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ http://noirmagnetique.blogspot.com/2016/03/telejeux-sur-le-cable-au-quebec.html

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External Links[edit]

Category:Quebecor Category:Television technology Category:Interactive television

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