May 13, 2020
Rik Dickinson, Encore Video Productions
Rik Dickinson is founder of Encore Video Productions, a company
that rented Atari 8-bit computers to hotels for use as character
generators. The computers would show information about the hotel on
channel 2 of guests' televisions. This was part of a service that
Encore offered to provide in-room movies that ran off videotapes.
The tape machines ran on a timer, and when the movie ended, the
video feed switched back to the text information displayed by the
Atari.
This interview took place on April 20, 2020.
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