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Anonymous on
May 30, 2007 at
9:30AM EST
Boston Legal on the Green Line
Desperate Housewives on the Orange Line
Lost on the Blue Line
The View on the Red Line
It could happen.
Digital TV’s are being installed on subway trains in Beijing, China in advance of the Olympics.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/2008/2007-05/28/content_881833.htm
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Posted by: David West on May 30, 2007 10:49AM EST
Nifty idea, that'd be kind of nice to have something to help pass the time. Even if it were just CNN cable news.
But you know the T would find a way to screw it up. Either they'd be mounted in ways too easy to deface or steal...or they'd put in speakers that inflict the sound on everyone instead of doing it right (with little FM retransmitters like satellite radio does)...or they'd break and never be repaired because Kone's escalator division wins the maintenance contract.
Actually, in all honesty, I think implementing something like this on the T would be fiendishly difficult. Well, okay, if it were nothing but pre-recorded stuff burned to DVD then it's not as hard because each trolley/subway becomes a self-contained system. But to get live TV you've got to take a cable/satellite TV feed and then re-broadcast it into the tunnels. That's not so easy...requires a lot of the right kind of cable to be laid throughout the tunnels, which is expensive and time-consuming.
In a sense, maybe the best way this could work is if a corporate sponsor handled all the costs AND produced a daily DVD's worth of content (that the sponsor controlled) and gave each train/trolley a copy of that DVD...thus reaping the ad revenue. Sort of like the old "Channel One" thing we had in high school back in the 90's (is that still around???) The T probably wouldn't make as much money, but they'd be providing better service and it'd more likely to "work" overall.
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