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To: qveauriche who wrote (120445)	6/15/2002 7:05:18 AM
From: waitwatchwander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

<HDTV adoption in Japan> My post is a bit off from you "product challenge". The HDTV story is more applicable to the standards, technology and market debate. It has all the same players; Japan, US and Europe and has been on-going for 30+ years. During that time it has had it's periods of irrational exuberance, competitive collaboration and silent irrelevance. A market for a "standard" technology is only now coming to fruition. I suspect that is due to the dramatic expansion of content, "anywhere theatre", the coming of leisure narvana and our capacity to communicate. The Japanese (Sony) were first to market with MUSE (FOMA). The Europeans (Thomson?) and Americans (RCA) both squabbled and collaborated. That ended in industry merger and abandonment. Even Qualcomm (Digital Cinema) got involved in their pre-cdma years, the Korean's (Samsung) contibuted to the recent kick-start and most likely the Chinese will become drivers of it's future. It's a long and "full" story. If your interested, I'd recommend: Defining the Vision amazon.com Timothy Ferris, New York Times says ot best: "A crystal-clear account of messily complex technological innovation characterized by Machiavellian machinations, mendacity, cheating and petty quarrelling - and occasional inventive genius." Sound familiar?