Plasma Displays, HDTVs Bring Excitement of Games to Key Hospitality Venues
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenith Electronics Corporation is
bringing the excitement of digital high-definition television (HDTV) to
visitors to Sports Illustrated's hospitality venues in Salt Lake City in
connection with the 2002 Winter Games, which begin here Friday.
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Separately, in conjunction with the ATSC Forum and the Organization of
American States, Zenith is installing HDTVs in Washington, D.C. for viewing of
Olympic events broadcast in high-definition by NBC and HDNet over the next two
weeks.
In Salt Lake, Zenith is installing more than $300,000 worth of digital
HDTV equipment -- including 60-inch widescreen plasma, direct-view HDTV
monitors and digital HDTV set-top boxes -- throughout Sports Illustrated's key
venues, such as its main hospitality center at the historic Union Pacific
Railroad Depot in Salt Lake City and the Park City Marriott, which will serve
as SI's home base during the Games.
Sports Illustrated, a worldwide sponsor, will entertain advertisers,
executives, celebrities, athletes and journalists, who will watch the Winter
Games being broadcast in high-definition on the Zenith digital sets
strategically placed throughout the Sports Illustrated hospitality locations.
The centerpiece of the Sports Illustrated Salt Lake hospitality venues
will be 10 of Zenith's award-winning 60-inch plasma display panels. Model
DPDP60W delivers stunning digital HDTV images on a huge, widescreen
hang-on-the-wall display that is less than 4 inches thick. Zenith's flexible
HDTV digital set-top receivers (Model DTV1080) featuring the latest digital
television reception circuitry will be used by Sports Illustrated to display
satellite HDTV images on Zenith's direct-view HDTV monitors (Model D32D53).
Zenith Electronics Corporation, founded in 1918, is a leader in digital
television technologies and inventor of the U.S. digital HDTV transmission
system adopted by the FCC. Zenith's Emmy award winning technologies include
digital HDTV, flat-screen CRTs, stereo television and TV remote controls. For
2002, Zenith is capitalizing on its digital HDTV leadership and on the
extensive technologies and resources of its parent company, LG Electronics
Inc. (LGE). (Zenith merged with LGE in November 1999.) Zenith's corporate
headquarters are in Lincolnshire, Ill. Visit us on the World Wide Web at
http://www.zenith.com .
SOURCE Zenith Electronics Corporation
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CONTACT:
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