Advocate   Pages: What Consumers Should Demand Current Status Consumer Power! Home Grown HDTV Announcements Products		Announcements Below are some of the most promising announcements concerning the production of HDTV Equipment. In the begining: On Thursday, August 6, 1998, DOW Stereo Electronics Clairmont store in San Diego, CA started selling the first commercially available HDTV sets. It is a Panasonic 56-inch rear projection model. Its list price is $5499. (with free local delivery! :) At the same event, Unity Motion announced that they will start broadcasting HDTV over a satellite channel 24 hours per day. Their converter box costs about $1500. At the start of 2002, there are many larger rear-projection HDTVs from which to choose. Mitsubishi's 65" WS-65819 for $2999, Sony's 57" KP57HW40 for $2999, Panasonic's Rear Projection monitors from $1999... NBC to present 2002 Olympic Winter Games from Salt Lake City in HDTV. JVC dicsussed their developments with D-VHS. Matsushita announced their development of a 50 GB Blue Laser Rewriteable Dual-layer Optical Disc that can lead to DVDs that hold 4 hours of HDTV. Sony and Pioneer have demonstrated a HD-DVD prototype. Lucent announces a receiver chip that is designed for use in high definition televisions		Related   Sites: ATSC HDTV Newsletter HD Vision Current Online: Public TV/HDTV HDTV: Who needs the FCC? Film Formats and HDTV How HDTV Works
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