----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I wonder if you could even break the suggestions into categories of narrative involvement or simply types of recorded messeges? Voice? Sound? Image? Also, I should say that _VIDEODROME_ brings up an interesting ambiguity whether Dr. Brian Oblivion is prerecorded, or what? I love that this topic has been addressed because I am working on a film where a character communicates through time using something like television (which has something to do with the inscription and transmission of sound, I hope.) I recommend a book called Wireless Imagination Jesse Burden