In message , Dave Newt
writes
I think it was Rue Montmartre (now Grands Boulevards) metro stop that
had, in about 2000, TV screens hanging down along the platform showing
news, weather, ads, film clips etc.

Circular Quay station in Sydney (actually elevated but and "Underground"
station in the operational sense) had those in 2001. I'm not sure if
they're still there but I'll be able to check in a couple of weeks!
:-)

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In article .com,
wrote:
I don't know if the economics of this type of display has improved
enough for it to be financially viable long-term - it may well have
done, but durability is surely going to be an issue.

The cost of the screens in use has come down hugely over the last
few years; the cost of a giant (21") LCD screen is now somewhere
under 3-400 quid, whereas it used to be over a couple of grand
easily.

So I suspect that durability is less of an issue than it was.


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Mike Bristow wrote:

So I suspect that durability is less of an issue than it was.

I agree with this regarding technical reliability - should have made my
point clearer in that I was thinking about what happens when milkshakes
are thrown on them, people slap them as they go down the escalators,
and stick 'Vote for God' type stickers all over them...

On Tue, 17 May 2005 20:47:13 +0100, Roland Perry wrote:

What happened to the plan to project adverts onto the walls of tube
tunnels so that commuters could see them out of the windows?

I expect it's still stalled while people figure out how to get any thing
recognisable from the soot-black tunnel walls.

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In article , Roland
Perry writes
What happened to the plan to project adverts onto the walls of tube
tunnels so that commuters could see them out of the windows?

On the Athens Metro last year I saw something out of the window between
stations that looked a lot like it might have been such a thing.
However, the train was always too crowded, and I was too busy, for me to
investigate properly.

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