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Electronics retailers have a dirty little secret about those pricey HDTVs: the pristine pictures on showroom models that wow consumers aren't what they will be watching at home. That's because most TV content is still delivered in standard-definition format. Result: Seinfeld reruns will look worse on a new $2,500 HDTV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adjusting the Picture for HDTV | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

...teams in the Southeastern Conference, sacrilege for a Louisiana schoolboy. He even has trouble remembering the start times of his games. In high school, about 90 minutes before a big game, he called his mother Olivia at home. She thought something was wrong. He just wanted her to tape Seinfeld. Eli is also more culturally ambitious than the average NFL quarterback with a $20 million signing bonus. He's a budding oenophile and likes to scout antiques, which could make him the only NFL quarterback adept at locating both receivers and Empire secretaires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NFL's Royal Family | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...SEINFELD SEASONS 5 & 6 By Fall 1993, this sitcom was reaching the apex of its catchphrase-minting cultural power--so much so that mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani made a cameo in an episode about bogus nonfat frozen yogurt. These 46 episodes include "The Puffy Shirt" (in which Jerry agrees to wear a flouncy pirate top on the Today show), and introduced J. Peterman (John O'Hurley, before he danced with the stars) and the concept of "regifting." Seinfeld's best and darkest seasons were just ahead, but no one is likely to regift this set, all the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: 7 Blasts From TV's Past | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...REST OF US Festivus, the Dec. 23 Seinfeld celebration of airing grievances and showing feats of strength, has led to enough real-life gatherings to warrant a new how-to book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Subverting Christmas | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

...with Harold Lang in the Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale (top). But the glamour girl's insistence on aging naturally led to memorable roles on TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, as Lou Grant's savvy lady friend, and as Kramer's mother on Seinfeld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 21, 2005 | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

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