1. What does 'bill' mean here?
2 ‘first color motion video phone’ -- what does motion mean here? means you can see the person moving on the video, as versus picture?
3. The phrase 'flip a shutter', means close the shutter? Shutter means 'a device that opens and closes to expose the film in a camera.' here?
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Ever wonder what your mother looks like when you explain you are not coming for dinner? Or how about your boss when running late in the morning? You will soon be able to find out
’No matter what you may have heard, we are not changing AT&T's legal name, to American Telephone and Television Company. But what we are doing is changing the nature of communications today.‘
Get ready to reach out and touch what AT&T bills as first color motion video phone for the home.
'You guys look great too'.
As a demonstration, AT&T used actors Robert Wagner and Jill St. John in Los Angels to see and talk with daughter Katie in New York.
- I think it's definitely the end of blind dating and the beginning of other kinds of dating over the phone.
- Maybe no dating.
- Probably
Shy suitors and anyone else wanting privacy can flip a shutter to block the camera, but some people want AT&T to voluntarily not sell any of the video phone to 900 sex line numbers.
'You can just imagine, unsupervised children being able to call a 900 number'
We've been hearing the picture phones since the world's fair in the mid 60s. People have been able to see and talk with each other more recently through business teleconferencing.
Usage jump dramatically because of the fear of terrorism during the Gulf war, and the lower costs versus flying.
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Ella Ye1. What does 'bill' mean here?
advertise; promote
Ella Ye2 ‘first color motion video phone’ -- what does motion mean here? means you can see the person moving on the video, as versus picture?
Yes. This is puzzling, since 'video' seems to have the idea of motion already.
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