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videotext

British

/ ˈvɪdɪəʊˌtɛkst /

noun

a means of providing a written or graphical representation of computerized information on a television screen

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One executive who agrees is David Winer, president of Living Videotext, a software publisher that does not put out games.

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Today some 4.5 million French men and women are shopping, banking, reading and, yes, flirting via Minitel, the state-run experiment in computer-to-computer communications that has grown into the world's largest home videotext network.

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But more than a million of the PC owners already subscribe to successful American videotext operations like CompuServe and the Source, which offer a wide variety of services -- and in English.

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Several U.S. corporate consortiums, including one jointly owned by AT&T, Chemical Bank, BankAmerica and Time Inc., are also exploring the videotext field.

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Two other efforts have ended in failure: last spring the Times Mirror and Knight-Ridder newspaper chains shut down a pair of failing videotext projects, for a combined loss of more than $80 million.

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