Word: hdtv
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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...
...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...