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- <text id=89TT0701>
- <title>
- Mar. 13, 1989: Business Notes:Electronics
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 13, 1989 Between Two Worlds:Middle-Class Blacks
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- ELECTRONICS
- The Big Picture
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- <p> The world's electronics giants are off and running in a race
- to dominate the predicted $40 billion market for high-definition
- television, the next-generation technology that will provide TV
- pictures as clear as a movie screen's. Last week Zenith
- Electronics, the only remaining major American manufacturer of
- TV sets, and AT&T, a power in microchip research, said they
- would pool their research to develop an HDTV system by 1993.
- Zenith will provide the broadcasting technology, and AT&T will
- provide the microelectronics.
- </p>
- <p> The U.S. partners hope to draw $13 million in financing for
- their $24 million venture from a special Pentagon fund for HDTV
- research. But just two days after the Zenith-AT&T announcement,
- the U.S. division of Japan's Sony acknowledged that it had
- submitted a bid for the Pentagon's entire $30 million research
- contract. "I don't think Sony needs a U.S. subsidy," groused
- Republican Representative Don Ritter of Pennsylvania, who has
- sponsored legislation that would create more HDTV incentives
- for American industry. "It was open bidding," counters Sony
- spokesman Haruyuki Machida. Who will get the money? Don't touch
- that dial.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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