• January 22, 2003

Comcast Cable customers in the tri-state area around Philadelphia will be able to watch two of the year’s hottest sporting events – Super Bowl XXXVII and the NBA All-Star Game – in high definition. Comcast, which made the announcement Wednesday, was among one of the first cable operators to launch HDTV service in November 2001. “Since we launched HDTV more than a year ago, some of the best response we have had from customers concerned sports and movies," said Michael Doyle, president of Comcast Cable's Eastern Division. "The clarity of HDTV brings the excitement of a world-class sporting event right into viewers' homes -- it's the next best thing to being there in person." Comcast's HDTV offering is part of the company's digital cable service and includes programming from NBC, ABC, PBS, HBO and Showtime. Over the past year, Comcast customers have been able to watch other high-profile events, such as the 2002 Winter Olympics, in high-definition. HDTV features a wide-screen picture with a width: height ratio of 16:9 (as opposed to 4:3 for traditional television sets) and more than two million pixels per picture.