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Parlor Wall (TV Parlor)
The original "big screen TV" takes up an entire wall of a room. (Read the full article)
| "I think that the four-wall TV parlor is a horrible idea. This is the reason why I thought that Mildred (Montag's wife) was a robot at the beginning of the book. She was so electronic. I mean, she refered to the parlor as her family and did nothing but stay in the parlor or listen to music on her seashells. I think that is sick. But, that is what the world is coming to now. We are more wound up with technology than we are with friends." (Meera 1/9/2005 12:17:30 PM ) |
| "it would be cool to have a wall size t.v." ( 2/15/2005 10:39:21 AM ) |
| "i think it would be cool to have a wall sized tv beacuse you would have to have a remote you could just like tell it what channal you want the tv to be on and it will go to that channel!!" ( 2/15/2005 5:48:38 PM ) |
| "I am intrested in buying vidio wall unit.
give me call at this # 1228 860 70 51,
Thank you
Patrik " (patrick 8/17/2005 4:47:59 PM ) |
| "Montag's wife reminds me of Peg Bundy from the tv show Married With Children. In fact, when I recently reread the book, I pictured her as Katy Segal.
" (Moondragon 9/2/2005 2:39:03 PM ) |
| "Thanks for the help! I am a student in Scottsdale, ARizona and I needed help with a quote for my dumb teacher's class. Her name is Mrs. Rand and assigns us to do paragraphs on this junk. i just hate her, thanks for the help though!"
" (Claire Duckworth 1/21/2006 10:17:53 AM ) |
| "Wall TV was mentioned in Ralph 124C41+:1911
They saw a play on a wall full of telephots.
However--Virtual Reality is mentioned in Bradbury's "The Velt" (Right - see Ray Bradbury's The Veldt for details. Bill)" (Penny 1/24/2006 5:20:02 PM ) |
| "More then a TV, Bradbury's description is similar to a virtual reality setup called a CAVE (Cave Virtual Automatic Environment).
A CAVE is a room with several walls and occasionally the floor and ceiling displaying a virtual world.
Links:
The creator of CaveQuake:
http://brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~prajlich/cave.html
CaveUT, an opensource Unreal based PC powered CAVE:
http://www.planetjeff.net/ut/CaveUT.html" (Yossi Preminger 3/10/2006 8:35:03 AM ) |
| "I provide some coverage of the CAVE created at Purdue university. See Minority Report-Style 'Discovery Informatics' At Purdue University." (Bill Christensen 3/10/2006 10:16:50 AM ) |
| ""I think that the four-wall TV parlor is a good idea." (Mike 3/2/2009 10:22:18 AM ) |
| "I'm actually having a full 4 wall done, with ceiling and floor as well. Voice activation was a must, and the sound system lays behind the walls. I plan to visit just about everywhere in that room =)" (Mindset Music Group 11/26/2010 9:38:17 PM ) |
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