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From: upstill@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Upstill)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: New Sony XBR series
Message-ID: <4993@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 13:47:08 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 13:47:08 1985
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Reply-To: upstill@ucbvax.UUCP (Steve upstill)
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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Summary: 

re "Sony's new double-bandwidth receiver".  This refers to High Definition
TV, or HDTV, Sony's proposed 1000+ line standard.  HDTV is a whole new ball
game, involving getting it accepted as a standard and getting stations to
use a whole batch of new equipment, and as such is still several years down
the road.  The thing coming out in December is Super-Beta, which is much
more modest: a Beta HiFi tape deck, backward compatible, with about 20% 
more bandwidth than normal Beta, which really only has about 60% the
bandwidth of normal TV.  I see no reason to wait for HDTV.

Steve Upstill