Word: hdtv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back, PCs rev up 90 NOTEBOOKS Ultralight power play 93 HANDHELDS Wireless Web access now 96 CELL PHONES Going digital with care 100 PRINTERS, SCANNERS Sharp and cheap 102 SOFTWARE Utility players and Y2K 105 GAMES The age of total immersion 107 HOME THEATER On the verge of HDTV 110 DIGITAL CAMERAS True sophistication...
...largest TV you could afford, connect stereo speakers, plug in a VCR and voila--you had bragging rights to state-of-the-art home entertainment. Now there's DVD, Dolby Digital, high-definition TV, personal TV, rewritable CD--all dazzling technologies, to be sure, but disorienting too. HDTV, a digital format so luscious it can make an enthusiast weep, was the year's biggest tease, delayed by technical complications and industry infighting. Yet some experts are optimistic, saying it will really show its colors in 2000--at least in major markets--and those who buy wide-screen, HDTV-capable sets...
...James L. Dolan will be focused on where the bulk of the money went--into an entirely new electrical system engineered to transmit high-definition-television versions of Music Hall spectaculars over his company's cable systems. But what Dolan can't wait to see, he says, is the HDTV view of that other great work of Music Hall art--the Rockettes...
Films recorded on digital videodiscs look even better. Many of the hundreds of movies available on DVD are encoded with the boxy TV version on one side and the original theatrical wide version on the other. So a wide-screen set that's ready for HDTV is also ready for DVD. A Samsung DVD player plugged into my Panasonic HDTV splayed the train wreck in The Fugitive gloriously across the full wide screen...
Even DVD pales beside real HDTV, however, as I learned when I finally drove to Miami last week to see it demonstrated in all its vivid, eye-popping detail at an electronics store. Too late for the Super Bowl, but, hey, there's always next year...