The Absolute Quality of My HDTV
Nearly twenty years ago, HDTV was considered the wave of the future of television broadcasting. Nearly nineteen years ago it was pronounced dead on arrival as a television format that would never become a reality, as it was too expensive and would require far too much on the part of the consumer (i.e. cost) in order to be a reality. Well, it wasn’t just the consumer who would be forced to incur a great deal of expense. A broadcast television camera in 1992 cost around $85,000.00. An HDTV camera, at the time, would cost around $500,000.00. In today’s climate, however, the cost restrictions have all but been removed and HDTV has slowly entered the realm of affordability.
The reason HDTV was praised as the future of TV many years ago was because the picture quality of HDTV was considerably better than PAL format and far, far better than the NTSC formats that were the dominant TV standards. HDTV is, quite honestly, the sharpest of all the TV formats in terms of picture quality. (It is even better than Mescam format, a format that was pretty much used exclusively in the middle east a long time ago. Ok, Mescam was long replaced by PAL, but you get the idea.)
Sales of HDTV are growing significantly and the absolute quality of the picture is the main reason for such growth. HDTV picture quality is incomparable, and those TV’s that are of the HDTV format deserve all the great sales figures they will get.
