Word: hdtv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Making room for this monument to television is no small matter either. The corner of our living room, which my wife had reserved for a baby grand (insert your own marital discord here), was cleared for the HDTV's landing, which required three men and a truck with a hydraulic lift...
...game, I went to work trying to get a high-definition signal. I got none. No Miami stations have started broadcasting in HD yet and the cable-TV industry hasn't even settled on a standard. My satellite dish wasn't any help, either. DirecTV shows one channel of HDTV, but nobody sells a decoder that can tune it in. Aaargh...
Confused? It helps if you're old enough to remember the early days of color TV. Buying a color set didn't instantly colorize all your favorite programs. That took years. Likewise, there are very few programs being broadcast in true HDTV--even in the 26 cities that already have digital...
...turned out, my digital dilemma was moot. Fox chose not to broadcast the game in HDTV after all. Apparently the network is waiting for a bigger event, like a live Mars landing or the final episode of The Simpsons...
Super Sunday scored big with my friends and neighbors anyway. Even without HDTV, the gridiron never looked better--thanks to the jumbo screen and a hidden upgrade that effectively doubles the standard analog screen resolution. The casual consensus: the best TV picture they had ever seen...