What is HDTV (2002)

There was a time barely anyone knew what HDTV was. Dave Malkoff [ davemalkoff.com ] has this report from NAB 2002.

[@Digitalveill]

Can't believe this was only 60 years ago that's insane

[@TANMAN9095]

this was 18 years ago, not 60.

[@Digitalveill]

@@TANMAN9095 its a joke bud

[@TheMamaluigi300]

MyDonutIsOnFire , Oh yeah? Well Japanese got HDTV *90* years ago

[@ArtieArchives]

@@TheMamaluigi300 No, Japan had the first HDTV in 1978/1979

[@gman2015z]

@@TANMAN9095 61 yrs now.

[@alpzepta]

0:33 holy shit that's a Sony GDM-FW900 CRT Monitor

[@DennisTamayo]

The 2020 reboot of Animaniacs on Hulu made a transition from 4:3 to 16:9, high-definition that is.

[@itsPikachu]

Bonkers?

[@michaelda94]

every south park episode, was made on 16:9 aspect ratio, they thought about it even before this become the standard.

[@pedroviskinho]

Nope, they were originally 4:3 and then remastered (re-rendered, actually, that's why they look and are native HD) to 16:9 1080p later, it wasn't until around season 13 that episodes were made in HD

[@marvy3022]

No, they only remastered the episodes in 2012.

[@DoritoFD]

2:27 This guy predicted the future

[@SkiNet201]

0:33 we need to go deeper

[@captainrobots1]

Now we have some that have 18:9 screen size for phones but not tv's.
But now we have 8k tv's.

[@BowserHype27]

I have a question:
Were the first HDTV sets 720p, 1080i, or 1080p?

[@AlexA-bn2wb]

i think it was 720p

[@the486man9]

@@BowserHype27 I have a crt panasonic quintrix tv from 2001 and does 1080i

[@TheMW2informer]

Ivan Salmoran the first HDTV I had (made in 2007) did 1080i but cable didn't have 1080i until 2009.

[@NUCLEARARMAMENT]

The real question is, what was the very first consumer HDTV set in existence to hit the market and what country and year did it debut?

[@therocktimist]

Interesting to think analog shut off only 7 years later in 2009, when in 2002 hdtv was still in its infancy and still had to be explained to the public. That’s a big change in 7 years

[@callumclark4021]

It seems the United States was way behind on this one. Britain began DTV transmissions as far back as 1998 and completely phased out analogue broadcasts on a phased-by-region basis between 2008 and 2012.

[@briankinsella5239]

HDTV actually started in the US around '99, but it took a little while longer for the general public to adapt, so we kept pushing back the analog cut-off date. Most people had upgraded to HDTV by 2008 or so.

[@wolfchrt]

@@briankinsella5239 Yeah, but I hate how we had to replace most of our TVs

[@swifty1969]

@@wolfchrt you didn't have to, you could've bought an external digital tuner.

[@wolfchrt]

@@swifty1969 I still dont know why they had to fade out broadcast

[@itsPikachu]

​​@@briankinsella5239 summer 2009

[@nicholashueper3822]

Is that Ross Becker 0:00? He works at a local TV stations in my area now.

[@michaelhuynh8793]

Intill June 12 2009 analog cutoff

[@Pasha8204]

Need 720p, best 1080p

[@john-lenin]

It will never take off (said a lot of morons at the time)

[@lamecasuelas2]

Does anyone know what was the very first commercially available HDTV?

[@aishwarykalosia7129]

Panasonic

[@DripDripDrip69]

Late 80s, in Japan Analog MUSE system.

[@RyGuy0520]

Philips was the first flat plasma tv

[@sj7624]

@@RyGuy0520 he was talking about HDTV not Plasma

[@RyGuy0520]

@@sj7624 your right my bad

[@Mercenary1996]

and back in the 40s we had really bad picture quality but back then thats what they had and fixed it like 60 years later ;)

[@Mercenary1996]

who new this was very early digital THEN it was HD 720p

[@btl743]

They spelled Mountain wrong

[@CDRiley]

You forgot your punctuation.

[@alexanderfriel7160]

Now is obselete but 21 years ago was something great

[@zapkidproductions]

when jungle was on tv shows lol

[@HaveAniceDay2450]

2:30 spot on

[@Mariofans-gn1lu]

1080p tvs are goin be like crtvs

[@BradPitBrasileiro]

omfg
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