At the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas, Zenith Electronics Corporation introduced over 40 new digital products. The highlights include a broadened family of flat-panel displays in a dozen screen sizes, a series of innovative digital recording devices and a range of high-definition television (HDTV) receivers and displays

An official release informs that as Zenith enters the third year of its successful transformation into a digital company, more than 90 per cent of the 2003 product line is digital. Zenith announced the industry's first DLP (digital light processor) rear-projection integrated HDTV, featuring the latest-generation chipset for terrestrial and unscrambled cable HDTV reception. Integrated direct-view HDTVs, including all-new 34- and 30-inch widescreen models, also feature combination terrestrial/cable HDTV tuners.

Innovative digital technologies introduced at CES included the world's first high-definition personal video recorders (PVRs), available beginning this spring. These ATSC set-top boxes feature built-in 80-gigabyte hard drives to record full HDTV. Other new digital recorders include a standard-definition combination PVR-DVD player and Zenith's first DVD recorder, which records on the most popular digital recording media.

On the heels of last month's industry agreement on national plug-and-play digital cable standards, Zenith showed its first implementation of the POD (Point-of-Deployment) interface in a 34-inch widescreen HDTV. This kind of HDTV, when it comes to market by mid-2004, will be able to receive premium digital HDTV programming via digital cable systems without the need for a set- top box - fulfilling the long-awaited promise of digital cable-ready HDTVs.