But now with the price of the sets starting at around $1,000, sports programmers are becoming the first to step up and give viewers the real-life in-the-stadium experience of watching a game on HDTV.
The White House said today that President Clinton would visit Vietnam shortly after the November elections, becoming the first president to step onto Vietnamese soil since the end of the war there that took 58,000 American lives.
LEÓN, MEXICO — When Pope Benedict XVI retired in February, becoming the first pope to step down in 600 years, Vatican officials were bombarded with vexing questions, including some that may have seemed oddly trivial: What would he wear on his feet?
Cranfield School of Management in Britain has gone a step further, becoming the first business school to incorporate a popular online business-strategy game into its MBA programme.The game is the e-Strat challenge, designed by L'Oréal, a cosmetics firm.
Gallifa then went one step further, becoming the first municipality in the region to practise what Fornas called "fiscal sovereignty", a purely symbolic gesture of handing over its taxes to Catalonia rather than Madrid.
The Yankees lead the four-of-seven-game series, three games to two, and need one more victory to clinch their 37th pennant and take the next step toward becoming the first team in 26 years to win three consecutive titles.
Perhaps, judging from recent developments on the island, where the legislature has held its first hearings on the issue, a move that signifies "a major step towards becoming the first Asian territory to approve marriage equality," the Shanghai-based Web site Shanghaiist reported, citing Gay Star News.
— If Artur Davis wins the Democratic primary here on Tuesday, placing him within one step of becoming the first black governor of Alabama, he will have reached this milestone in the most improbable of ways: bypassing the hierarchy of the state's oldest civil rights organizations.
Aidan O'Brien took another significant step towards becoming the first trainer to win £6m in a season in Britain with a one-two in the feature event here on Thursday when Seventh Heaven, the Irish Oaks winner, held off Found by two-and-three-quarter lengths in the Yorkshire Oaks.
Speaking to journalists during his flight back to Rome, he made conciliatory remarks about homosexuality, saying that "If a person is gay and seeks God and has goodwill, who am I to judge?" See articleUruguay took a big step towards becoming the first country in Latin America to legalise and regulate the production and sale of marijuana when the lower house of its Congress passed a bill to do so.
