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Fujitsu's Plasmavision Presages Great Things Ahead
Barry Willis  |  Feb 08, 1998  |  0 comments

A two-day stop in San Francisco on Fujitsu's road show last week was enough time to let me scoot downtown and scope out the company's new Plasmavision 42 display. Jon Iverson and I were mighty impressed by it last month at the Consumer Electronics Show, where it was demonstrated under less-than-ideal conditions. This month, in a suite on the 35th floor of the ANA Hotel, the Plasmavision once again stood out as an exceptional feat of engineering.

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Gateway's $3k Plasma TV
Barry Willis  |  Nov 03, 2002  |  0 comments

Sports fans watching NFL football games this past Sunday may have noticed something unusual among the dozens of commercials: an ad for a 42" <A HREF="http://www.gateway.com">Gateway</A> plasma television.

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Green Light for HD-DVD
Barry Willis  |  Mar 01, 2004  |  0 comments

HD-DVD is ahead by a nose in its race against Blu-ray. On Wednesday, February 25, the 20-member steering committee of the DVD Forum voted to approve technology developed by Toshiba and NEC for use in the coming generation of high density/high definition DVD recorders.

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Hackers Get Creative in Distributing DeCSS Code
Barry Willis  |  Apr 15, 2001  |  0 comments

Civil libertarians and computer hackers are united in their opposition to a ruling last summer by US District Judge Lewis Kaplan that banned the posting or propagation of DeCSS. The code, named for its ability to unlock DVD's Content Scrambling System, enables the copying of DVDs. In his ruling, Judge Kaplan ordered website <A HREF:"http://www.2600.com">2600</A> to remove not only the code, but also links to other sites where curious visitors might find it.

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HD Video Looms Large at HI-FI '98
Barry Willis  |  Jun 06, 1998  |  0 comments

Video is hot and getting hotter. With HDTV looming on the horizon, no-compromise video demonstrations will be among the biggest attractions at <A HREF="http://www.hifishow.com">HI-FI '98</A>, beginning Tuesday at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel.

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HDNet Expands Offerings
Barry Willis  |  Apr 27, 2003  |  0 comments

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has a proven instinct for what sells.

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HDNet: Long Haul Venture
Barry Willis  |  Mar 10, 2002  |  0 comments

Journalists and television industry analysts have stated from the outset that three types of content would drive high definition television: adult fare, blockbuster movies, and sports.

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HDTV Developments
Barry Willis  |  Jun 15, 2003  |  0 comments

Several new developments in early June promise to boost the market penetration of high-definition television.

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HDTV Forecast: More Delays Ahead
Barry Willis  |  Aug 06, 2000  |  0 comments

Locally broadcast high-definition television <I>won't</I> be coming to a home theater near you anytime soon. That's the consensus of participants and observers at congressional hearings on the subject in late July, when long-simmering disagreement over a technical standard for terrestrial transmission finally got its day in court.

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HDTV Rollout Not Slowing Big-Screen TV Sales
Barry Willis  |  Dec 05, 1999  |  0 comments

The popularity of DVD and home theater is driving sales of big-screen television sets to new heights&mdash;despite the fact that the rollout of digital television may make them obsolete in the near future. Sales of big-screen sets are up 13% over 1998, according to the latest statistics from the <A HREF="http://www.cemacity.org/">Consumer Electronics Association</A>. Ninety percent of the approximately 1 million units sold in 1990 were equipped to display only NTSC analog signals&mdash;or "legacy video," as industry insiders call it.

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