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John Corn
08-19-02, 02:30 PM
At the men's NCAA ( news - web sites) basketball Final Four ( news - web sites) in Minneapolis last year, fans' attention in the Mitsubishi suite was divided.

''Three or four of the people were watching play on the court,'' Mitsubishi's vice president of marketing, Bob Perry, said. ''The other 14 had turned around and were watching the game on one of our HD sets. The viewing was better.''

The images on the high-definition, theater-like wide screen offer such clarity that viewers can make out the faces of fans in the stands. After two decades of bold predictions for success, high-definition sets are beginning to make an appreciable dent in TV sales.

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invaliduser88
08-25-02, 07:15 PM
I'd love to see the Houston Texans get their butts kicked in HD! Go Texans!

Especially with the parking nightmares reported around Reliant Stadium for their first game yesterday.