Reach Out and Fax Your TV Commercials: VideoFax Lets Agencies, Clients, Post Houses Send Full-Motion Video Via Telephone Lines in 15 Minutes

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HOLLYWOOD – A new system for ‘faxing’ TV commercials that …The $25,000 VideoFax box, which comes with a keyboard and monitor to operate it, works via a switched digital phone service, which requires phone company connection at a cost of up to $500.The box, which must be utilized by both sender and receiver for the system to work, is hooked to a phone line, TV and VCR. With the punch of a keyboard button, the sender transfers a tape to fax and then to a receiver’s system, at which point the ad can be viewed on the monitor or dubbed to tape.Monthly

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