Consumer electronics: Americanizing videotex: Even as U.S. companies prepare to enter the videotex marketplace, what the consumer wants is not yet clear

Impatient with the droning of the evening newscaster, a man in London hits a button on his TV remote control, and the screen fills with printed bulletins about the latest crisis in Parliament. In a suburb of Paris, a woman uses her TV set to check her bank balance and to call up a list of Club Méditerranée vacations. In a small town in the Netherlands, a boy home sick from school gets his daily lessons sent to him via television. For hundreds of thousands of Europeans, the television set has become a window to reams of information stored in distant computers — news and sports, movie schedules, airline rates, and supermarket specials.