| Are you watching the big game in high-definition?
There are sinus headaches, migraine headaches and hangover headaches. But there's nothing quite like a high-definition headache. It usually starts like this: You wander into a big-box electronics store, browse the TV aisles and listen to the sales guy rattle off a few high-tech specs, at which point your brain becomes a jumble of alphabetic chaos - filled with LCDs and DLPs and LCoSs. .
One man's HDTV odyssey
WASHINGTON - Back in August, my needs were simple. As one of the reporters covering the Redskins for the Washington Post, I needed a television and a way to record games so I could analyze what turned out to be a five-win season. A $119 combination 13-inch TV with a VCR would have solved the problem. Instead, I ended up taking the high-definition plunge, spending $1,399 for a far-bigger and fancier television set than I originally had in mind. As I left the store with my new HDTV, my confidence was boosted by approving nods from people in the parking lot. "It's going to change your life," one man said. .
Sharp Develops 108V-Inch LCD TV, the World’s Largest
Sharp has successfully developed a 108V-inch LCD TV, the world's largest, and will exhibit a prototype model at the 2007 International CES to be held in Las Vegas, USA, beginning January 8. This 108V-inch LCD screen, which measures 2,386 H by 1,344 V mm, features a Black Advanced Super View Full-Spec HD LCD Panel manufactured at Sharp's Kameyama Plant No. 2, the first plant in the world to use eighth-generation glass substrates. The success of this development means that it is now possible to produce LCD TVs in all sizes from 13V-inches to the super-large-size class, and that LCD is the predominant display device in the flat-panel television market, for which dramatic growth is forecast in the future. Ever since developing the world's first 14V-inch color TFT LCD in 1988, Sharp has consistently led the world in LCD TVs with larger screen sizes, introducing a 45V-inch model in 2004 and a 65V-inch model in 2005.
Black Hills fans won't see Super Bowl on HDTV
RAPID CITY - For Black Hills viewers of high-definition television, the Feb. 4 Super Bowl LXI will be a low-definition event. Young Broadcasting, the company that operates CBS-affiliate KELO-TV, does not offer high-definition on its West River stations, confirmed Gwen Kinsey, the company's president and general manager.KELO, the company's namesake transmitter that serves Sioux Falls, has been converted to offer HDTV in addition to its regular TV signal, she said. However, the transmitters that serve the rest of the state, KPLO, KDLO and KCLO, have not yet been converted."We've already invested $4 million, and we're not done yet," she said.That means that West River viewers who have high-definition televisions won't be able to watch the Super Bowl in high-definition, not even on cable TV or satellite.The only exception - and it's a rare one - is if you are a rural customer of DirecTV satellite service, and you have an exemption from KELO to get CBS programming from another market, according to Bill Teevens of Wirefree USWA, a dealer for DirecTV.Under Federal Communications Commissions regulations, people who live beyond the reach of the local station's over-the-air broadcast range can get an exemption that allows them to receive network programming from Seattle or some other CBS-affiliated station.
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