HDTV Defined

The "TV Era" is over!



The TV - symbol of American culture for three-quarters of a Century - is obsolete.

The most familiar focal point in family living-rooms for generations, the traditional NTSC-Analog Television set - the one everyone had because it was the only one available - is no more! 

This solitary icon that stood steadfast for so many decades, TV as we knew it - your TV - has been replaced. Through evolution, display technology has created a new, television paragon; this near-perfect model comprises a whole-new-complex of icons in place of the One. 

Yesterday's TV has yielded today's: DTV … SDTV … EDTV … HDTV.

Since entering the new millennium, we've seen a number of significant societal changes that have effectively altered how we live, day to day. Television in the Twenty-First Century is a hallmark to certain of these changes. TV, so-long dormant, has finally emerged from the shadows where it dozed for decades. Now in the full light of a new era, TV has at last awakened to its full potential. The evidence is the revelation displayed by this astonishing, new vision. Digital TV is the bright dawn of a new day, after the long night of traditional TV.
The picture quality of the new, (Digital) Standard Definition TV - "SDTV" - is so surprisingly superior to traditional Analog TV, it raises the question - How did Analog Television survive for so long, with such obviously poor picture quality? Clearly, we didn't know what we were missing!

But SDTV was just the beginning. At the same time we were learning about Digital TV, there was talk of another, 'better' TV. This was identified as "High Definition Television." And IT was said to be, "incredibly better" than Digital's SDTV. However, while High Definition TV (HDTV) is "digital" TV, it's NOT at all the same as SDTV. The two have separate and distinctly different formats.