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BUSINESS, Page 49Business NotesELECTRONICSThe Big Picture
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.
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.