Durn, I missed it... anyone here catch this on their HD set? Heh.....
Channel 2 to Broadcast New Year Parade in HDTV
Laura Evenson
Friday, February 26, 1999
©1999 San Francisco Chronicle
KTVU (Channel 2) will air the first live, local high-definition digital broadcast by any San Francisco Bay Area station when it presents the 1999 Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on its digital channel, KTVU-DT 56.
Celebrating the Year of the Hare (lunar year 4697), the digital broadcast will take place at 6 p.m. tomorrow with a taped rebroadcast at 11 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday. A standard TV broadcast of the event will be carried on KTVU (Channel 2) and KTSF (Channel 26) at 6 p.m. tomorrow and 11 p.m. Sunday. KTSF will co-host the show in Mandarin and Cantonese.
HDTV offers twice the picture resolution of conventional television, resulting in cinema-quality images and sound close to the quality of a compact disc. While few people have the equipment to see the broadcasts, since true HDTV sets cost $7,000 to $10,000, viewers will be able to catch the digital TV broadcasts at Circuit City stores in San Francisco, San Mateo, Daly City and at the 4080 Stevens Creek Blvd. store in San Jose.
©1999 San Francisco Chronicle Page D4
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