holovision n.

= tri-v n.

  • 1966 You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet in TV Guide (1967 TV Set Buyers’ Guide section) 17–23 Sept. (unpaged) page image

    Elaborately costumed actors and actresses, almost life-size, appear so real that you feel you actually could touch them. The missing dimension has been added to televison—the dimension of depth…. Holovision is still in the ‘we-think-we-can’ stage. [Ibid.] With the exception of three-dimensional holovision, all of these functions of your future TV center are possible today.

  • 1968 M. Frayn Very Private Life 4 Michael Frayn bibliography

    They'll be materializing before them in the special reception chambers, transmitted by way of the wires and beams, and reproduced by the three-dimensional holovision system in all their natural solidity.

  • 1970 R. Silverberg Tower of Glass in Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine June 86/1 page image Robert Silverberg bibliography

    They simply crossed the plaza again and again, marching neither too rigidly nor too slackly, keeping their eyes on the holovision hovercameras above them.

  • 1972 E. Bryant Poet in Hologram in Middle of Prime Time in H. Harrison Nova 2 95 Edward Bryant bibliography

    The title page lands face up: ‘Darkness Comes Cheap: an original play for holovision.’

  • 1972 E. Bryant Poet in Hologram in Middle of Prime Time in H. Harrison Nova 2 97 Edward Bryant bibliography

    I would have been regretful, but I would have accepted your resignation. After all, you’re one of the top holovision writers in the field.

  • 1973 H. Harrison We Ate the Whole Thing in Vertex Apr. 62/3 page image Harry Harrison bibliography

    I'm gonna take his picture and pictures of all the stuff he found out and you gonna see it on holovision and see how bad you stink.

  • 1976 J. Varley Bagatelle in Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine Oct. 15/1 page image John Varley bibliography

    At night, it was Hans' habit to sit on his vibrating bed and watch the holovision until one o'clock. At that time, his kitchen would prepare him a late snack, roll it to him in his bed, and he would retire for the night.

  • 1987 K. Cramer Forbidden Knowledge in R. Rucker Mathenauts (1989) 126 Kathryn Cramer bibliography

    As their relationship matured, increasingly they spent their time together watching holovision reruns of popular executions.

  • 1990 A. McCaffrey & J. L. Nye Death of Sleep (1992) 189 Anne McCaffrey Jody Lynn Nye bibliography

    Flatscreen pictures don’t have enough life in them… I prefer holovision every time.

  • 1991 E. Arnason Woman of the Iron People (1992) i. iv. 149 Eleanor Arnason bibliography

    But he has been spending time in one of the big holovision rooms.

  • 1996 J. Gunn Joy Machine iv. 69 James E. Gunn bibliography

    The students were facing a holovision display of a woman and a man looking attentive and kindly.

  • 2014 M. Haig Echo Boy (2015) 262 page image Matt Haig bibliography

    Could a human love an Echo? Could an Echo love a human? The first question was always asked a lot on bad holovision shows.


Research requirements

antedating 1968

Earliest cite

Michael Frayn

Research History
Katrina Campbell submitted a cite from a 1992 reprint of Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye's "The Death of Sleep".
The OED has a citation from a 1980 reprint of Harry Harrison's "We Ate the Whole Thing"; this was found in the original appearance in the first issue of Vertex, in 1973.
Malcolm Farmer submitted a cite from a 1975 reprint of Ed Bryant's "The Poet in the Hologram in the Middle of Prime Time" in Nova 2; Dave Langford verified the cite in the 1972 first edition.
Malcolm Farmer submitted a cite from a 1989 reprint of Kathryn Cramer's 1987 "Forbidden Knowledge".
Malcolm Farmer submitted a cite from a 1975 reprint of James Tiptree's 1973 "The Girl Who Was Plugged In".
Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a reprint of John Varley's "Bagatelle"; Mike Christie verified the cite in the 1976 first magazine appearance.
Ralf Brown located, and Douglas Winston and Lawrence Watt-Evans independently submitted, a cite from a reprint of Robert Silverberg's "Tower of Glass"; Mike Christie verified the cite in the 1970 first magazine appearance.
Roberto Labanti submitted a cite from a 1968 by Geoffrey Wolff, "Life in the Tube", in the September 21 Washington Post, reviewing "A Very Private Life", by Michael Frayn; Jeff Prucher found an example in the book itself.
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 2014 cite from Matt Haig.

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