KRON Goes HDTV With TVBD KRON Goes HDTV With TVBD Television by Design (TVBD) is pleased to announce the completion of their first HDTV graphics project for KRON, in San Francisco. The project marks the first in what promises to be a steady flow of requests from clients converting to HDTV in the coming months. The project was produced at the new Atlanta facility of tvbd with the help of Adobe PhotoShop®, Adobe Illustrator®, Alias Wavefront®, and composited in Adobe After Effects®. The 1920x1080 rendered files were output at the Sony Pictures HDTV facility in Los Angeles for use in the first digital broadcast from KRON, in San Francisco. In addition to announcing the "KRON DIGITAL Clearly Better Television" slogan, the animation features an arrangement of four NTSC 720x486 clips of San Francisco scenes used at full resolution, within the larger HDTV composition. Spanning four across, the scenes present a dramatic visual size comparison between the two formats. The four scenes also serve as a representation of the multi-channel possibilities available through DTV.