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Word: hdtv (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...huge high-definition TV sets in a Tokyo hotel ballroom last week were crystal clear. The colors were vivid. The resolution was so fine that the image of the five executives cutting a ceremonial ribbon looked almost three dimensional. The occasion: the expansion of Japan's HDTV broadcasting to eight hours a day, up from the one-hour tests begun in 1989. With its sharpness of picture and CD-like crispness of sound, Japan's HDTV has all the outward appearances of another grand success about to wash over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clear Picture, Fuzzy Future | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

...despite the lifelike clarity achieved after 20 years of research and at a cost of more than $1 billion, the future of Japan's HDTV program is far from clear. HDTV sets go for more than $30,000 each, which explains why fewer than 300 have been sold. While that price will inevitably come down, HDTV has generated only a lukewarm response in a country usually unable to resist new television technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clear Picture, Fuzzy Future | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

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