Information superhighway is just outside the Beltway

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The Washington, D.C. area, long the seat of political power in the United States, is also home to high technology companies involved in telecommunications, computers, software, aerospace, biotechnology and the Internet. The number of Federal employees (350,000), when compared to the number of people employed by the high tech sector (470,000), show that, in one sense, the region is the technological capital of the United States. Though this quiet expansion of high technology companies into Washington, Maryland and Virginia has gone largely unnoticed, the precedent was established years ago when defense contractors set up headquarters near the Department of Defense; to when telephone companies wanted to be close to government regulators like the Federal Communications Commission and when biomedical laboratories set up shop next to Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health offices. As the Cold War drew to a close, engineers, researchers, technicians, corporate executives, marketers, lobbyists and others in the high tech industry shifted gears, not only in response to fewer government contracts, but to technological changes and growing opportunities in the private sector. And like their historical counterparts, high tech businesses are adapting to being so close to Washington's power center.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, COMMUNICATION, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Communications Equipment, Telecommunications Equipment, Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Washington, DC, Aircraft & Parts, Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing, Genetic Engineering, Aircraft and Parts, High technology industry, Computer software industry, Computer industry, Software industry, Economic aspects, Biotechnology industry, Biotechnology industries, Internet, Internet service providers, Telecommunications industry, Online services, Internet services, History, Telecommunications equipment industry, Communications industry, Aerospace industry, Location, Washington, D.C., Technology and state, Technology policy, Washington Suburban Area

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Ready or not, here comes HDTV: but the industry's vision is still far from focused

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High-definition television (HDTV) sets will reach stores in months, but TV networks' ability to alter resolutions and formats may impact HDTV's future. ABC, CBS and NBC, in Apr 1998, formally announced plans to broadcast 'true high-definition television' on HDTV sets in fall 1998. Microsoft and News Corp's Fox Television oppose the HDTV format, characterizing it as superfluous and wasteful. Fox in early Apr 1998 unveiled plans to use the 'progressive scan' format, favored by computer companies and others, for transmission of standard-definition digital programming on less expensive digital TVs. Politics and finance also have shaped HDTV development, which has been controversial since before 1988. ABC reversed fall 1998 suggestions that it abandon HDTV after Congressional warnings of possible severe penalties. HDTV, with its 1,080 lines of vertical resolution, is more expensive to produce than standard-definition digital TV's 480 lines. ABC said its HDTV show would employ a 720-line progressive-scan format.

Microsoft Corp., MSFT, National Broadcasting Company Inc., CBS, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Company technology development, ABC Inc. (Burbank, California), Fox Broadcasting Co.

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The dawn of HDTV, ready or not; few will actually see ABC's 101 well-defined dalmatians

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Starting Sunday, November 1, 1998, this country's first high-definition TV (HDTV) broadcasts will take place, whether we in the TVland viewership are able to receive the format or not, whether we want it or not. It is by government decree that all television broadcast will be in this format eventually. One important feature is its interactive capability. PBS with cooperation and help from Intel will offer digital interactivity when it runs its program on Frank Lloyd Wright. Viewers with TV tuner cards in their PCs will be able to download data such as blueprints and bibliographies.

United States, Cable Networks, Services introduction, Cable and other pay TV services, Motion picture & video production, Motion Picture and Video Production, TV Program Production-Network, Interactive CATV, Planning, Services, Abstract, Science and technology policy, Network television production, Interactive television, Public Broadcasting Service

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