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...keep all those eyeballs on the game--and on those commercials--the networks are constantly experimenting to make the TV football experience even better. The new frontier: high-definition broadcasts. Fox already shows six games a week in high def, CBS three, and both ESPN's Sunday-night game and ABC's Monday Night Football are available at higher resolutions. The difference between standard and high definition is striking. With high def, you can recognize faces in the crowd, and the wider screen lets you see that safety backing up into coverage...
LYNNE CHENEY Known for her kids' books, the Veep's wife also wrote a frontier novel, Sisters, in 1981. But--search the bunker--it's out of print...
...nihilism that many young black men and women feel is very real and very dangerous. America needs an immediate and honest conversation about the role of incarceration in a democracy and how racial paranoia has led us to warehouse and surveil millions of citizens. Prisons are thus the new frontier for the civil rights struggle. And though this movement will certainly be less photogenic than old church ladies being brutalized by racist police officers while trying to vote, we must not shy away from one of our generation’s major callings. The enemy may be more challenging than...
...Frontier Silicon, based in Watford, England, is also trying to expand what phones can do. Frontier is building a chip that allows a cell phone to double as a TV, so that a user could watch, say, sports highlights while waiting for a train. The chip, called Chorus, receives broadcast signals from television operators, digitally encoded so they can't be intercepted. That system is a threat to mobile operators, because broadcast signals bypass cellular networks. A phone owner could receive video programming without having to buy it from a mobile network provider...
...Frontier is providing the chip to Samsung, which is building it into a mobile device for the Korean market. Beginning in the first quarter of next year, several broadcasters, including the Korean Broadcasting System, will start airing programs tailored to it. "Within the next five years, the major new killer application on mobile phones will be the reception of digital TV and radio,'' says Frontier founder and chief executive Anthony Sethill. And there's more in store. Frontier is adding digital recording to a chip it makes for televisions, so that it acts like a personal video recorder...