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Pity technology's new-again beauty, high-definition television — that breathtakingly beautiful girl at the dance, so lovely that not a single boy can muster the courage to ask her to the floor. Everybody wants HDTV, but nobody wants to pay for it. The reaction to it is rapturous: "Mesmerizing!" "Better than ......

Las Vegas — Sigma Designs Inc. has developed a new high-definition television decoder chip set that supports MPEG-4 video and could be built into future TV sets. The new EM8605 chipset, introduced at the International Consumer Electronics Show here last week, will support digital TV, DVD, video-on-demand and digital video ......

High-definition television was on the minds of marketers at last week’s CTAM Summit in Washington, D.C., and on hand to talk about it was Internet-broadcasting and HDTV pioneer Mark Cuban. Best known as the hands-on owner of the National Basketball Association’s Dallas Mavericks, Cuban’s other business is the HDNet and ......

High-definition television’s promise — to deliver high-resolution pictures accompanied by near theater- quality sound — is being kept, albeit gradually and with some trepidation and confusion among HDTV service and content providers and, most importantly, consumers. The quality of high-definition technology has never been questioned. It provides up to 1,920 ......

In five to 10 years, high-definition television will be modulated, compressed and displayed in ways that will make the technology of 2004 look primitive. HDTV programming will be almost universally available via scores of channels, many — if not most — of which will offer vast on-demand HD repertoires. Most ......

Anaheim, Calif. — While cable operators are apparently resolute about deploying high-definition television, how to deal with the myriad bandwidth, content and business issues remains a fuzzy picture at best, as attendees found out at the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing luncheon at the Western Show here last week....

As video-on-demand and high-definition television have become the cable industry's two hippest must-have products, it was inevitable that people would think about putting these two video lovebirds together. It seems a strong product-marriage proposal — VOD product in HDTV format would not only appeal to the coveted high-end video customer ......