HDTV History from 1989

Check out this video about HDTV and the history in the US...

WOW this some awesome stuff i did not know.. really interesting shit..

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TIMEWARP!!!!

Wow, 89'. How the times they are a changin.

Funny how they were super paranoid that Japan was the country to make all this technology.

The HDTV they were showing was all analog. Japan didn't think Digital OTA was possible for a few decades later, but General Instrument (American) created Digicipher 1 in 1992.

We're going to have that HDTV thing in the US by the early 90's? Sweet!

Anyhow, pretty interesting. Funny to see how, with all of the talk about us needing to catch up, it then took 10+ years for HDTV to actually become a realistic option over here.

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Originally Posted by Wildkat

Funny how they were super paranoid that Japan was the country to make all this technology.

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Heh, yeah. "Japan are going to took our jerbs!" I was never really old enough at the point where Japan was the "country beating America" to really think much about the whole situation, so it's interesting to get a look at some of that.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

We're going to have that HDTV thing in the US by the early 90's? Sweet!

Anyhow, pretty interesting. Funny to see how, with all of the talk about us needing to catch up, it then took 10+ years for HDTV to actually become a realistic option over here.

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I've seen RCA promos from the late 50s where they were expermenting with a higher def than NTSC format. They found the bandwidth too taxing on the spectrum. Much like the Analog system featured here would have been.

It took digital compression to make HDTV affordable and functional to the masses.

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Originally Posted by Wildkat

I've seen RCA promos from the late 50s where they were expermenting with a higher def than NTSC format. They found the bandwidth too taxing on the spectrum. Much like the Analog system featured here would have been.

It took digital compression to make HDTV affordable and functional to the masses.

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I I think i read the Russians were the first to make high resolution broadcasts they where used for the military.. in the 50's

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Originally Posted by Wildkat

I've seen RCA promos from the late 50s where they were expermenting with a higher def than NTSC format. They found the bandwidth too taxing on the spectrum. Much like the Analog system featured here would have been.

It took digital compression to make HDTV affordable and functional to the masses.

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Right, it's just funny how the U.S. side seemed to be talking like it was coming soon, and then, well, it didn't.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

Right, it's just funny how the U.S. side seemed to be talking like it was coming soon, and then, well, it didn't.

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wasnt this the fault of the us... japan already had hd broadcast in 93 i belive...

Interesting stuff.

However to much Japanese love guys, they are perfectors, not creators. Always have been.

My dad told me they had an hd TV for his seal training after nam in the late 70's, maybe he wasn't fibbing.