Consortium set up for new TV; 2 rival electronics companies and NBC to join research

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The National Broadcasting Co will join with two consumer electronics companies - Phillips Consumer Electronics Co and Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc - to form a consortium that will develop high-definition television (HDTV). Thomson and NBC already provide financing for HDTV research at the David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, NJ. The consortium seeks to develop a system that would be accepted by the US government and be compatible with standard televisions. Industry analysts believe that the combination of two leading research centers for video technology - Sarnoff and Phillips - will pose a formidable challenge to the Japanese, who are ahead of the rest of the world in developing HDTV. HDTV will probably enter the US market in two phases: Advanced Compatible Television (ACTV) will be available by 1993. HDTV, which has 1,100 lines, will follow, producing pictures twice as clearly.

Household audio and video equipment, Research, Consumer electronics, Industrial research, National Broadcasting Company Inc., International competition (Economics), Television equipment industry, Digital television, High-definition television, High definition television, Thomson Consumer Electronics, Consortia, Philips Consumer Electronics Co., Research and Development, Japanese Competition, David Sarnoff Research Center, Consortium

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At winter electronics show, telephones of the future

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The winter Consumer Electronics Show offered glimpses of the telephone of the future. Manufacturers displayed cordless phones that are lighter and smaller, have wider transmission and reception ranges, and offer better sound quality than existing cordless phones. Northern Telecom Inc debuted the $136 Maestro, the first telephone designed to accommodate caller identification services. All seven regional Bell operating companies plan to offer caller identification soon, but questions of privacy remain. Innovative Communications rolled out the roughly $250 Voiceprint telephone, which remembers phone numbers by name and dials them at a voice command.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, Product introduction, Telephone, Telephony, Trade shows, Consumer Electronics Show, product announcement, Trade Show, Telephones, New Technique, 1990 AD, Winter Consumer Electronics Show, Northern Telecom Inc., Innovative Communications Networks (Seattle, Washington), Northern Telecom Maestro (Telephone), Innovative Communications Voiceprint (Telephone)

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U.S. agency accused of favoring I.B.M

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The US General Accounting Office, in response to complaints from six computer companies, is investigating the procurement practices of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is accused of favoring IBM in computer contracts. The six computer companies claim that the NIH has wasted millions of dollars by refusing to consider competitive bids. IBM has been consistently awarded NIH computer contracts over the past ten years. The NIH's procurement practises are defending by IBM, which maintains that the accusations against the agency are part of a continuing campaign to intimidate the Federal Government.

Admin. of public health programs, General government, not elsewhere classified, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Investigations, Contracts, United States. National Institutes of Health, United States. Government Accountability Office, Government Agency, Competition, Government Contracts, United States. General Accounting Office

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