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To: qveauriche who wrote (120386)	6/14/2002 3:49:52 PM
From: waitwatchwander	Read Replies (1) of 152472

electronic gadget that has caught on in Japan that did not also catch on in the US? HDTV IN JAPAN [As noted in your reply] Japan has developed an HDTV system based on analog technology (known as Hivision) that has been in use since 1991. The Japanese electronic industry invested almost 20 years and an estimated $1 billion in this HDTV technology, called Muse. Their public broadcasting system (NHK) offers nine to ten hours a day of HDTV programming. The biggest problem facing Japanese HDTV is the extremely high costs of the reception equipment. "The cost of an HDTV set is about $14,500-$29,000 for the 36 inch CRT monitor plus another $14,500 for the Muse decoder." (Kahaner, 1993) According to recent NHK reports, only 25,000 Muse HDTV sets have been sold in Japan, making analog HDTV a failure there. According to Broadcasting and Cable, Japan announced their plans to abandon their Muse-analog HDTV systems in favor of the digital trend and future early in March of 1994. .................................................. Now, the most significant problem faced with HDTV is exactly the same problem faced with color TV in 1954. There are approximately 600 million television sets in the world and approximately 70% of them are color TVs. An important and critical consideration is whether the new HDTV standard should be compatible with the existing color TV standards, supplant the existing standards, or be simultaneously broadcast with the existing standards (with the understanding that the existing standards would be faded out over time). ee.washington.edu

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