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To: BillyG who wrote (34004)	6/24/1998 3:32:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Samsung's HDTV............................... e-town.com SAMSUNG SINGS HIGH Korean colossus throws hat into the high-def ring by Mark Fleischmann RIDGEFIELD PARK, NEW JERSEY, June 23, 1998 -- The high-definition television category got a little larger today with Samsung's announcement of its first HDTV model. The SVP-555JHD 55-inch rear projector is due the first week of November for the early-adopter price of $7995. Also shown was a standard-definition screen with 40 inches worth of liquid crystals, to be available in 1999 for $2999. The HD set is a true 1080i display that upconverts all other formats to its native scanning format. It comes with an integrated broadcast tuner, not a set-top box, the option chosen by other manufacturers. Due to copyright-protection concerns, among other reasons, the Samsung will not convert ATSC digital formats to NTSC output. This would not prevent it from converting analog channels to its digital display, but might complicate hookup of an analog VCR, and ATSC-ready digital VCRs are not immediately forthcoming from Samsung or anyone else. Surround options include Dolby Digital and Pro-Logic, provided through built-in left/center/right speakers with line output to the two rear-surround channels. Guts by Samsung In addition to seven-inch cathode-ray tubes (CRTs), the HD set includes proprietary Samsung large-scale integrated circuits (LSIs) that assemble several major digital-TV components on one board. These LSIs will not immediately be licensed to other manufacturers but they do suggest that Samsung is capable of making an economical set ... someday. "We expect all these prices to go down exponentially," said Mark Knox, Samsung's senior manager of digital products and CE marketing. Though the ATSC standard requires all digital sets to accept a VSB-type antenna input to accept ATSC broadcasts, any other kind of input is optional. Rejoice, DVD fans -- Samsung has chosen to endow this 55-inch digital set with a DVD-type component input. And by the way, the Korean giant will release two more DVD players this year on the heels of its second-generation DVD905.