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A Future We'd Like to See 1.9 - 293 Channels
By Twoflower (Copyright 1993)

The big day! B-Day! THE day! The one big really important
incredibly amazing wonderful day was here! I had been waiting
quite awhile, too. Saving a few dozen credits out of my weekly
paycheck. Cutting corners here, sacrificing frills here.
Finally, I had enough money, and merely had to go down to the
showroom and BUY it.

I opened my sliding glass door as the burly workmen pulled
it into my den on huge, rusty carts. Box after box was pulled
into the room, giving me a slight flashback to my days in school,
learning about the construction of the pyramids on ancient Terra.
Although I'd much rather have this than a few thousand stone
blocks any day.

"Alright, got the stuff in. Where'dya want it set up?" the
workman said, wiping his brow with yesterday's fashions, now
today's rags.

"Just set it up along that side of the room."

The workers unpacked the two towering, well, towers of
equipment and placed them on either side of the space I had
pointed to. Projectors and speakers and all sorts of imagery
devices (no, not metaphors) were unpacked and stacked in an
organized manner.

"That should be it," the workman said. "You're now the
proud owner of the latest on HoloVision technology, capable of
throwing life-size--"

"Yes, yes, I know, I've had the sales brochure blown up to
wall size and hung in my room as a poster. Where's the remote?"

"Right here," he said, taking it out of the now-empty crate.
"You got yer selection of 293 local and cable holochannels, plus
the quadrophonic digital music system. Collision detection and
solidification is installed as well, and you can scale the image
to any size you want, room permitting. Plus there's the new
immersion--"

"Great!" I said, fishing in my wallet. "Here. Have a
fifty-cred tip."

Actually, prices being what they are, this isn't THAT
impressive. This setup had run me about 20,000 credits. A
simple 2000 credit 12-cubic inch box HV wasn't good enough for
ME.