Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.latimes.misc From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: ART Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 07:07:09 EST Message-ID: HEADLINE: ART Publication Date: Thursday November 5, 1992 BYLINE: ALEENE MacMINN Now Playing, Great Art: Japanese art-lovers will soon be able to enjoy electronic versions of masterpieces by Goya and Velazquez at the touch of a button. Electronics giant Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday it had developed with Madrid's Prado museum and a Japanese television station a $16,400 system that will store 315 works of great masters on an image database so they can be called up later on TV screens. The system uses Japan's high-definition television technology. This article is copyright 1992 The Los Angeles Times Home Edition. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM