Thirty-five years after Japanese pubcaster NHKdeveloped hd technology, the format has come of age. 'Increasingly, there are no more hd virgins,' says John Ford, exec VPof programming at National Geographic Channel U.S. 'Almost every company we've talked to has been through the process of producing in hd, understands the technology, and is able to bring costs down.'

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