roundtable: HDTV in our future ? (from Edupage)

roundtable: HDTV in our future ? (from Edupage)

HDTV in our future ? (from Edupage)

Curtiss Priest (cpriest@juno.com)
Mon, 25 Aug 1997 14:05:56 EDT 

To: ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG
Subject: HDTV in our future ? (from Edupage)
Message-Id: <19970825.140410.4223.9.cpriest@juno.com>
From: cpriest@juno.com (Curtiss Priest)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 14:05:56 EDT


Title:  HDTV Falling Out of Favor
Source: Broadcasting&Cable <http://www.broadcastingcable.com/>(p.4)
Author: John Higgins
Issue:  Digital TV
Description: "This is a giant game of five-way chicken going on here,"
says media analyst Tom Wolzien speaking of the HDTV vs SDTV debate. 
"Nobody's got the model yet.  I think it's going take a year for this to
shake out." ABC has announced that it is more interested in multiple
standard definition channels (SDTV) than in one prettier HDTV signal. 
(And if you had ESPN and Disney programming to fill the extra stations,
wouldn't you, too?) Fox and NBC seem to be leading to a SDTV-HDTV mix
and CBS seems the only network interested going with all HDTV all the
time.  (But if you had a hunk like Dan Rather to show off, wouldn't
you?)

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