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This trope can be {{exaggerated|Trope}} by displaying the characters actually holding the device he is using to chat (as seen in the image above). This would require a non-existent third person camera to be setup InUniverse.

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This trope can be {{exaggerated|Trope}} by displaying having the characters actually holding hold the device he is they're using to chat (as seen in the image above). This above), which would require a non-existent third person camera to be setup set up InUniverse.
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* An episode of ''Surprise Sur Prise'' has this as one of their pranks. A television show is showing off new tech with which they talk with random people through the television, although they flub with the first two people because they use the same background. The third person is the prank's mark, being caught in her home. The TV show ends the call, then cuts to commercial, who notice that the mark is slightly distracted and tells her to pay attention.

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* An episode of ''Surprise Sur Prise'' ''Series/SurpriseSurPrise'' has this as one of their pranks. A television show is showing off new tech with which they talk with random people through the television, although they flub with the first two people because they use the same background. The third person is the prank's mark, being caught in her home. The TV show ends the call, then cuts to commercial, who notice that the mark is slightly distracted and tells her to pay attention.
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* SSTV (Slow Scanning Television) was a method of image translation used in amateur radio practice before cheap cameras were available. It required only one light sensor instead of a proper camera and used a TV screen [CRT] for scanning. It was more or less a shadow puppet theater for a [[UsefulNotes/GeneralGamingGamepads light-gun controller]].

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* SSTV (Slow Scanning Television) was a method of image translation used in amateur radio practice before cheap cameras were available. It required only one light sensor instead of a proper camera and used a TV screen [CRT] for scanning. It was more or less a shadow puppet theater for a [[UsefulNotes/GeneralGamingGamepads [[MediaNotes/GeneralGamingGamepads light-gun controller]].
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* The Telescreens in ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' receive and transmit simultaneously and are a big part of [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou how Big Brother watches the people of Oceania]]. Even the Thought Police secretly recording the protagonists is done by a telescreen hidden behind a picture on the wall, rather than a smaller hidden camera.

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* The Telescreens in ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' receive and transmit simultaneously and are a big part of [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou how Big Brother watches the people of Oceania]]. As long as people stay within the field of vision which the telescreens command, they can be seen as well as heard. Even the Thought Police secretly recording the protagonists is done by a telescreen hidden behind a picture on the wall, rather than a smaller hidden camera.

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