HDTV (High Definition Television) with Defining TV Moments

What is HDTV?

High Definition TV or HDTV is a digital transmission standard that viewers the best in visual quality and sound possible. This is one of 18 voluntary standards for digital television by the Standards Committee of Advanced Television (ATSC) has set guidelines for quality standards for encoding audio and video transmission to pursue. Of these 18 rules, which are superior to the technology used in today's analog TV, HDTV is the highest rating. The format of the HDTV broadcast, then consider this. However, buying a HDTV-ready does not automatically mean that you enjoy the benefits of this technology. To qualify for HDTV, you should also look at a program that digitally created. In some cases, we need a set-converter for converting analog to digital television.

Anyway, he can not escape that the digital age is upon us and if we are not ready, just a matter of time until the analog broadcast will be so used to it and removed the digital television is standard.

For a couch potato said he knew nothing about digital TV, the prospect is terrifying. Understanding the need for digital television and HDTV, so it is now

The technology of television as we know it today has evolved since its creation in late 1800th With the success of inventions by Bell and Edison Technical reducing distances, scientists are increasingly of the possibility of "seeing distance or the ability to see someone move the rest of the world speaking and fascinated as you are in a different location.

Through his tireless efforts, it was not long before the American scientist Charles Jenkins and Scotsman John Baird was in England, brought up in the air and describes the United States and his first television Stick Figures. It has been several important events that led to the development of the technology of television followed, as we know it today.


• 1927 - Bell Labs' first voice live images.

• 1939 - RCA launched its first line of televisions in a just world.

• 1943 - The National Television Standards (NTSC) standard technology for television in black and white were introduced.

• 1957 - Robert Adler invented the first practical remote control called "The Commander".

• 1960 - the lineup of color TV was introduced.

• 1962 - a sign of a satellite has been launched for the first time

• 1970-1980 - The fiber-optic high-performance have been introduced to significantly improve the performance of the television and make way for the entry of the technology of digital television.

• 1990 - Closed caption television was set for the hearing impaired.

• 1994 - High Definition Television (HDTV) standards have been established and a plan for phasing out analogue television to digital conversion

• 1998 - The first HDTV equipment sold.