holovid n.
a holographic video; a device or system that displays or records holographic videos; cf. holovision n.
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1973 The Day I Died in Stalking the Nightmare (1982) 294
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Harlan Ellison
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I was on a publicity tour for the book, fresh from a talk show over holovid. Oh, yes, I should mention holovid…. The cable people in conjunction with LaserScience, Ltd. of Great Britain combined holograms with 3-D projection techniques and came up with holovid, in which the viewer actually became a part of the show or studio audience.
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1973 People of Wind in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact Feb. vi. 58/2
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Poul Anderson
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He groped through the dusty clutter in the room and snapped on the holovid. A recording played, over and over, a man’s voice high-pitched and his face stretched out of shape: ‘—war declared. A courier from Ythri has delivered the news in Gray, that Terra has served notice of war.’
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1980 Frankie the Rat Man & Baron von Ronk in Destinies Summer
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G. E. Coggshall
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Together, the three come alive in the nighttime. No need to watch the HoloVid in the comer with its inevitable Pro-Sports. No need for a couch near the dancefloor to gander the latest Flop-Flip steps. Freed from the need for Biofeed, they.
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1985 Freezone in B. Sterling Mirrorshades (1986) 143
John Shirley
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Rickenharp’s holovid and the videos weren’t getting airplay.
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1992 California Voodoo Game vi. 68
Larry Niven
Steven Barnes
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When all was said and done, one got points by destroying one’s enemy, but made money by cooperating to make the best holovid possible.
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1997 In Alien Hands 88
William Shatner
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Big Scaly settled back down and aimed some kind of handheld contraption that resembled a holovid camera at him.
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2002 Soul Pipes in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Dec. 69
Ray Aldridge
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I felt what must have been a pale echo of the sort of grief I’d once felt watching a holovid of a dear lost lover.
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2013 Writing in the Margins in Asimov’s Science Fiction Apr.–May 59
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Joel Richards
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With the recent development of recording and imaging devices, and micron-thin wiring that we can insert directly into the cortical centers, we can capture and download a holovid of past life retrievals.
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antedating 1973
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Harlan Ellison, "The Day I Died"
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Harlan Ellison's "The Day I Died" first appeared in the Los Angeles Free Press, 5 January 1973. We would like to check the original of this.
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