Spectravision
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Spectravision, later renamed Spectravideo, is a video game company that developed and published games for the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, and Commodore VIC-20.
'SpectraVision' was also the name for OnCommand corporation's hotel cable television enterprise in the U.S.. It gained notoriety in the early 1990s for showing pay-per-view adult movies in which the male genitalia was blurred out. These movies were always billed to the room only as 'movie'. SpectraVision was a hotel-based system using industrial VCRs and Echelon's LonWorks for control and billing. SpectraVision lost favor to satellite-based systems in the mid-1990s. The service was lampooned in the 1994 movie Tommy Boy.[1]
SpectraVision is also the name given to a very much modified version of the "Pepper's Ghost" illusion created in the 19th Century. SpectraVision is the technologically up-to-date version of this effect with the reflected image created by using video projectors or video monitors.
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