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High-Definition TV Demonstration (fwd)
From: Thomas Bowers 9621204 <tbowers@email.unc.edu>
A pioneer in the development of high-definition television (HDTV)
will demonstrate it in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Oct. 28.
John Greene of WRAL-HD in Raleigh, which received the first
Federal Communications Commission license to operate an experimental HDTV
station in 1996, will show programs and explain the new system beginning
at 10 a.m. in the main entrance of Howell Hall.
HDTV uses digital technology to offer approximately twice the
vertical and horizontal resolution of existing, analog television and
provide a picture quality approaching 35-mm film and a sound quality
approaching that of a compact disc.
The FCC has adopted a high-definition standard for the United
States, where digital broadcasts are due to begin next year. It is
estimated that more than 50 percent of American viewers will have access
to at least three digital signals by the end of 1999. The same standard
has also been recommended for adoption in Canada and Mexico and is
actively being considered for adoption in other countries in South and
Central America, Australia and Asia.
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Tom Bowers
tom_bowers@unc.edu
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365
voice: 919.962.1204
fax: 919.962.0620
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