tri-v n.

The situation was so hackneyed in 3V and microcomics that it was less a matter of explaining it than of making it seem real.

Bill faced the tri-V scanner and held up his hand for attention.

I followed the news stories like a tri-V serial and then I was heartbroken when they just disappeared.

The TriV programs are dull.

She began to sing. I don’t know what, maybe a loony song from a trivvy commercial.

From the integration room the readout operator could construct a speech, a 3-V commercial, a space ad or anything else…and test its appeal on his subjects.

‘You know, honey,’ I said as she clicked off the 3-V, ‘there isn’t any sense in this.’

I said the strip show was coming on the 3V in a minute and that’s what the customers wanted, not any of his foreign stuff.

The first of the day’s news bulletins began to unroll itself, the letters of the announcements standing out in startling colour from the wall trivvyscreen.

Reporters boiled about, shouting questions and waving microphones; trivvyrigs darted from every side.

The case of Davenport v. Davenport would have raised enough dust to satisfy even the trivvy magnates without the astounding disclosure by Mrs. Ira Amanda Davenport of the nature of the offence allegedly committed by her husband.

Lou sat tensely in front of the Tri-V cameras.

When I first came aboard this satellite Dr. Kaufman asked me to go on Tri-V and tell you something about what had happened to me.

Before Guy came Ballou found me waiting on tables in a helibar and picked me to be what he call [sic] a Poppy-Cola girl. I was supposed to be on trivee to sell Poppy-Cola.

When Kiley refused to get excited, she took her irritation to the trivee screen and punched for room service on the panel Kiley hadn’t seen before.

They have given us a tri-v…and it is obviously what the humans watch. There were spokesmen for many Masters. You saw.

A form seen only in the safe confinement of the trivee, fighting dozens of light-years away, was now made incomprehensibly real, on their porch, in the late afternoon rain.

Now what are we supposed to do?… I've never been on trivid before.

Have I got a tri-vid team waiting to talk to me, too?

They had bug-eyed monsters on the cover of Scientific American and little green men chasing each other across the news on every trivee screen on Terra.

Moki and Ukatonen…spent most of the day watching the Tri-V or listening to Analin and Eerin talk about them. It was fun at first, seeing themselves on the Tri-V, but they only showed the same few pictures and words.

Passengers packed into lounges and staterooms tuned to 3V found themselves staring up from the airless surface of Aetna II.

Millions of tons of misguided rock and ice hurtled right at Aetna II. An unnerving sight, even in 3V.