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Starz Touts High-Resolution TV.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2003

By Jennifer Beauprez, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 10--CHICAGO--Starz Encore Group has come up with new technology that will let consumers watch cable-TV movies with crisper pictures and digital sound this fall. But it's not called high-definition television, the technology talked about for nearly a decade.

It's called high-resolution TV and is practically indecipherable from high-definition TV. Yet the high-resolution service ultimately promises to save cable-TV operators valuable space on their channel lineup, John Sie, chief executive of Arapahoe County-based Starz Encore, told reporters at a cable trade show.

The technology uses about one- third the bandwidth that HDTV requires, Sie said. That's...

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