High-definition television, or HDTV, provides five times the visual information detail, 10 times the color information, and more than double the resolution as a standard television. In addition, HDTV features a sound quality equivalent to that provided...

High-definition television (HDTV) is a digital television broadcasting system with greater resolution than traditional television systems (NTSC, SECAM, PAL). HDTV is digitally broadcast, because digital television (DTV) requires less bandwidth if...

According to western electronics companies high-definition television is too important to be entrusted to the ordinary rules of competition. On the contrary, it is too vital to be protected from them AN INDUSTRIAL "domino theory" underlies arguments raging over tomorrow's television sets: if...

HDTV is coming. While the Federal Communications Commission projects the year 2006 for the completion of nationwide conversion from analog to digital, the top 30 television markets will have functioning systems in 1999 (FCC, 1998). The immanent arrival of HDTV has provoked mainly economic...

Early stereo went a long way toward making music and movies sound more realistic. After all, people have two ears. One tinny speaker couldn't make them happy.Dolby Laboratories DLB spun that two-speaker stereo concept on its ear, developing coding systems that sliced and routed sound...

Global semiconductor sales reached a record $248 billion last year, driven largely by favorable economic conditions and rising demand for consumer electronics such as high-definition TVs, digital music players and cell phones, an industry group said Friday.Worldwide chip sales increased 8.9 percent from the $227.5...