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BLUE BOX
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Well in the first volume, we briefly discussed all of the new inovations and
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some other tidy tidbits in monor detail.
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In this volume we will develop on PictureFone, Ma Bell and all her abilities
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last but not least "The Basics Of LD Phreaking".
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Now first PictureFone. Picturefone is a television-video hookup in your
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office home etc. which will enable you to speak and communicate at the same
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time, anotherwords, you can see who you are talking to. This is a very very
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new ISDN innovation. Now lets dicuss it in both the fundamentals and the
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disadvantages.
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Of course a definate plus would be the video, but is this really desirable?
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Well lets see, if you call you buddy on the phone and you just got outa the
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shower and you wanna get changed or your girlfriend os on the phone and she has
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one of those masks on? or you call your wife and see in the backround another
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man? It can be very detramentle. Well basically the system works on a
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microwave station just as a TV station except you access these waves by use of
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the special telephone line designed by Ma Bell. The system is Keyed by what
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else, a 2600hz tone to activate the voice dialing system, then when a
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connection is established, instantaniously the camera on yur end activates and
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transmits back to ma bell swithcing and is then routed on the correct video
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line corresponding to your phone number. When the connection is broken, the ma
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bell swithing office automatically shuts off the video output and the line
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voltage returns to normal. There is no option as of yet to shut on and off the
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video display, this would be very complicated because the reciveing screen is
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not a typical TV screen but a monitor and does not use typical transistors, it
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has to work in co-op with the Bell system and therefore cannot just be
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"Shut-off".
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A test system of picture phone as mentioned in volume #1, is in operation in
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Germany. With this new system will also be available that nifty little option
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to see the originating phone number flash when a person-to-person direct call
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is placed. This will be optional for about $1000 more. Available with
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PictureFone is a system called PrivCode. This awesome little innovation is a
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handy privacy feature. It's simple, when the unit is on, No-one can get
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through unless they enter a 3 digit access #, callers are greeted by a
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sythesized voice (female) and asked for their ID#. At all times you can see
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who is trying to access your phone. If the right code is entered, it will page
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you asking you if you want to talk to xxxx.
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All in all, picturephone should be a very nice change from the boredom of
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regular phones.
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