Not that I've been following the details of the HDTV debate on Screen-L, but . . . If you've had the opportunity to see HDTV, you'll understand its significance. Of all people, Gary Parsons should have had such a chance, since he works at a place--and, no, it isn't MIT, which does NOT have a lock on everything great and wonderful--where HDTV research is ongoing. In fact, my opportunity to see HDTV came at that university. HDTV is not just bigger. Its resolution is extraordinary. It does somehow make you feel as though you are there. Harriet Margolis