Now, almost a decade after the introduction of pictures on the Web, the cost of transmitting moving images is still prohibitive compared to television. Even after a century of telephone technology, videophones are little more than an amusing novelty device and not the widespread platform predicted over forty years ago. But the Web has changed since its early days as a text-based medium and very recently it acquired an entirely new model of convergence that of the home stereo unit. The Word is out, literally. As in finished or obsolete.
Sound is in.
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