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When Cuban bought the team two years ago, he called FoxSports Network president Robert Thompson seeking to broadcast Mavs games in high definition. Thompson was dumb struck. "I said why would I want to do that?" At the time, there were no trucks for HD transmission, no distribution channels, and the costs were off the charts. "But he did pique my interest...
...pull a truck up to a stadium, hook up to existing cables from every camera to the truck outside and transmit," he says. "But there were no cables for high def, and the setup was expensive." Sony had to create a new cable system for the five HD cameras needed for each game. By piggybacking on FoxSports' regular NHL broadcasts and using its graphics and audio, Garvin and Cuban got the network running in 15 months...
Networks and cable channels are moving cautiously ahead. CBS, the HD leader, records almost all its prime-time shows in high def, and ABC about half. NBC lags far behind. Entrepreneur Paul Allen has his own high-def channel, ASCN, based in Portland, Ore. HBO (owned by TIME's parent company AOL Time Warner) and Showtime provide high-def programming to satellite-TV subscribers...
...tking me out agn, u lousy toad? ive nvr hd a pistachio milkshk. i dnt know if my asian digestv tract cn tk it. wat do u think...