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...sale will virtually wipe out Zenith's debt and enable the company to invest in new technologies, including high-definition television. While HDTV is probably a decade away, Zenith is developing flatter, sharper TV screens that may keep the company -- and the U.S. -- in the race with Asian manufacturers...
...high-definition television, the next- generation technology that will provide TV pictures as clear as a movie screen's. Last week Zenith Electronics, the only remaining major American manufacturer of TV sets, and AT&T, a power in microchip research, said they would pool their research to develop an HDTV system by 1993. Zenith will provide the broadcasting technology, and AT&T will provide the microelectronics...
...partners hope to draw $13 million in financing for their $24 million venture from a special Pentagon fund for HDTV research. But just two days after the Zenith-AT&T announcement, the U.S. division of Japan's Sony acknowledged that it had submitted a bid for the Pentagon's entire $30 million research contract. "I don't think Sony needs a U.S. subsidy," groused Republican Representative Don Ritter of Pennsylvania, who has sponsored legislation that would create more HDTV incentives for American industry. "It was open bidding," counters Sony spokesman Haruyuki Machida. Who will get the money? Don't touch...
...companies in the U.S., Europe and Japan, will provide a picture of much greater resolution and clarity than present ones have. But many different systems are competing for acceptance, and some could not be delivered over broadcast TV without major retooling. Last month, however, the FCC ruled that any HDTV system approved for transmission in the U.S. must not render existing TV sets obsolete. That seems to ensure that the networks will not be left...
...broadcasters ponder what to do, the Japanese are making HDTV available on an experimental basis. Next year they will begin special coverage of the Seoul Olympics, which can be viewed in Japan only on HDTV sets. In 1990 Japan will launch a communications satellite designed to carry HDTV signals, capable of transmitting them anywhere in the world. But experts predict that it could be five years or more before the slow-moving U.S. networks begin to offer HDTV broadcasts of their...