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HDTV - College Essay

HDTV

It all started when Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. This opened up
the idea of receiving and playing professionally produced entertainment at home.
As the years went by, there have been many advances in technology and ways to
transmit signals through the air waves into people's homes. After all, this is
what it's mostly used for, to get programs into people's homes. Whether it be
movies, commercials, instructional videos, music, PSA's, news, sports. Whoever
creates these programs have the intention of letting somebody else watch them.
Today in America our current broadcast standard is a 525 line/60 field
per second based system called the NTSC (National Television systems ...

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station in the country to send HDTV signals over the air waves. WRC-
TV's general manager then stated, "With advanced digital high-definition
television, viewers will experience unmatched picture quality and superior sound
resolution."
There are many pro's and con's regarding having HDTV as the new standard.
Not all broadcasters are interested in HDTV at all. During the transitional
period, broadcasters will have channel space to send NTSC signals and HDTV
signals simultaneously. At first, the timeline for this to take place was about
7 years down the road. Now experts are saying 15 years is more accurate.
Broadcasters are eager to see which of the major corporations will be the first
to make the change.
Even though a broadcast standard is a handful of years away, HDTV is
already being used in other ways. Hospitals are taping surgical procedures and
corporations are using HDTV for presentations. Dale Cripps, publisher of the
on-line newsletter HDTV Today says, "HDTV ...

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