Big Time T V - - HDTV/DTV in the U.S. Dale E. Cripps HDTV Newsletter HDTV promises to be the next "big thing" - perhaps even bilker than the World Wide Web (WWW). The long awaited HDTV/DTV s~ndard was agreed upon by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on December 24, 1996.After nine agonizing years of phenomenal development, the standard now moves swiftly to the fist track for commercialization. Commercialization is a staggering ~sk which does nothing less than fundamentally change the nature of traditional broadcasting, while at the same time completing the major step of converging the television and computer industries. Imaginations can now soar to deliver to the world what has never been before heard or seen in the home. HD'I'V de,vers not only the perfect theatrica] experience, bur can come together with the full power of the computer to aid in the visual and aura] experience. It is big in every sense of the word: big screen, big experience, big vision and big money. Those who have contemplated its furore say it will leave consumers breathless for many generaClansto come - - pro~ing that the transition from today's television standard ~ n be completed. There must,
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