AH Challenge: Make the 1936 public video telephone more popular!

First public video telephone service

The world's first public video telephone service was developed by Dr. Georg Schubert and opened by the German Reichspost in 1936 using square displays of 8 inches (20 cm), but which quickly closed in 1940 due to the outbreak of WWII. In that service trial, video telephone lines linked Berlin to Nuremberg, Munich, and Hamburg, with terminals integrated within public telephone booths and transmitting at the same resolution as the first German TV sets, at 440 lines. The service was offered to the general public who had to simultaneously visit special post office videotelephone booths in their respective cities, but at the same time also had Nazi political and propagandistic overtones similar to the broadcasting of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

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I knew they had video phones in the seventies but i never heard of this before. How could they become actually more popular or at least better known in popular culture?
 
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