European countries, and especially Sweden are a bit upset about the gung-ho US approach to HDTV. There have been a number of articles expressing concern over certain US development without witing for all the data to come in. Of course, the European approach will be to do a sort of research proposal, referendum, and then decide on a standard. They are worried about too many standards, and subsequent cost for consumers AND Tv networks, many of which are stat-owned. We could just end up again with BETA versus VHS versus PAL versus SECAM versus NTSC, etc. The musical instrument manufacturers really showed the way in creating MIDI. musical instrument digital interface, as an international standard and thereby cheap in the long run for all. Just think if computers could run all software! I hope that HDTV can wrok it out internationally. bert deivert sweden