HDTV Almanac - A Dangerous Game — Community

#1 Oct 7, 2009 at 1:00 pm

In doing some other research, I stumbled across the following article :
Forrester Research Predicts HDTV Will Fail
While digital television offers a variety of ways for TV manufacturers, broadcasters, and cable operators to make money, high-definition television (HDTV) doesn’t. A new Report from Forrester Research, Inc. predicts that standard definition digital television (SDTV) will succeed where [...]

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#2 Oct 8, 2009 at 11:23 pm

I made a comment to this effect a few years ago. Right after I got my first HD television. I still observe that I get inferior quality from most television sources (cable/satellite/broadcast) than I do from my SD DVDs played on my PS3. Somehow this doesn't seem right to me.

Don't get me wrong when the Broadcaster works at it (ie. the show is plugged as High Definition, "WOW!") then broadcast HD is right up there with BluRay.

The problem for me is that bandwidth is so important for making HD work. I don't really consider most HD I see from sources other than OTA and HD media (i.e. BluRay) to actually be HD. So I guess that the report was right.

It comes down to marketing, yet again. I don't mean to sound despondent but the 1080 number on my TV (whether p or i) seems to just represent the possibility of the potential of High Definition Video. GIGO, Garbage In Garbage Out. After all one can watch SD on an HD set. It just tends to look like SD. And the program sources can claim 1080 or 720 all they want but if they don't back it up with bandwidth then these numbers are just place holders of potential. A bit sad really.

Good Luck to us all that this doesn't completely catch on,
Brian.