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...German company, Kopp Media, specially engineered portable rig for Buttner and his high definition (HD) camera. In order to accommodate the length of the shot, a French company developed a special hard drive with twice the capacity of traditional HD camera: 100 minutes of uncompressed images compared to a usual...
HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE More than 250,000 Americans have HD or are at risk of inheriting...
...Check with your cable- or satellite-TV provider to see what it recommends. You may even be able to lease one. If you're paying a few dollars a month for a Time Warner Cable digital-cable box, for instance, you can get one with a built-in HD converter at no extra charge. (Time Warner Cable is owned by AOL Time Warner, which also publishes this magazine.) Or, to get free HD over the air, you could hook a digital-TV tuner ($450 and above) and a UHF antenna (such as the Terk TV-55, about $100) to your...
...course, there has to be some HD to watch. Before you can see, say, The West Wing in HDTV, NBC has to create an HD version of it. That means a significant investment in digital cameras and cables--a tough sell to a business with billions of dollars sunk in the old way of making TV. Then either your cable company has to carry the big HD version over its coaxial cables (taking up precious bandwidth that could otherwise carry more channels), or the local NBC affiliate has to broadcast it over...
...these pieces of the HDTV puzzle are starting to fall into place. Over-the-air HD programming has doubled since last year. Under pressure from Congress to upgrade their systems by the end of 2006, more than 600 local stations in 165 of the nation's 215 TV markets are transmitting at least some of their shows--mainly prime-time favorites such as CBS's Everybody Loves Raymond and ABC's The Practice--in high definition, and the networks are adding programming all the time. ABC has announced plans to broadcast the next Super Bowl in HD. Starting next year...