The Wonderful World of HDTV

The Magnificent World of HDTV HDTV stands for High Definition Television. It was launched in 1998 but has just become widespreadly well-liked in the last four or five years, which is because of a previous shortage of HDTV-specific programmes, the high cost of the equipment and general inertia.

That has changed since around 2010. Prices have come down considerably and most TV programmes and all films are made in the HDTV format nowadays. Techies and sports and movie fans were the most enthusiastic sections of society for HDTV and they were also the first to get into it.

In fact, HDTV is a colossal leap in technical advancement compared to the old system. The resolution of the screen is a lot higher and it supports surround-sound as standard. This puts general TV broadcasts on a par with the quality of sound that comes out of the home stereo system.

This is great news for film and music buffs. The sound and music quality are equal to anything you may find in a cinema. If you want to go a step further, you could run the HDTV through the home movie theatre system without a reduction in quality. Being digital, both system hook up together very easily. just plug them in and off they go.

It is becoming easier to buy an HDTV system because the general public is becoming used to the technology and its terminology and overcoming its inertia. Everybody knows someone now who has a new HDTV system so they are less frightening.

The old style TV's with the large box at the back familiar for seven or eight decades were analogue, but these new systems are digital. Digital signals have several benefits over analogue signals. Digital signals take up less bandwidth and incorporate errorchecking so that the quality is more reliable.

This is the same as the music played from CD's and the films played from DVD's.

Everyone agrees that the image quality of CD's is better (or remains good longer) than vinyl LP's and that DVD's are better than the old analogue VCR's. All of this contemporary technology is now built into the HDTV system.

The high resolution pictures created by the new TV sets is ideal for sending through a projector onto a wall or large screen. This makes it perfect for coupling up to a home movie theatre system. In fact, numerous people do this because the quality is so good.

The merely disappointing aspect of HDTV is the quality of the TV programmes.

Money and talent is spread so thinly across so many shows, so many channels and so many hours and the TV staff and personnel are paid so much that all we get to watch is rubbish, with a couple of notable exceptions. No wonder that people hire more videos now than ever before, everyday TV programmes are awful.

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