A Brief History of HDTV Television
HDTV television is thought to take it’s roots in Japan in the 70′s. Initially the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers suggested it’s endorsement to the technology in the year 1989 which included a wide screen format and a resolution of 1100-line scanning The United States was initial introduced with a demonstration of HDTV in 1981. By the year 1987 the FCC partitioned advise from private soures who formed a committee on advanced television service. Advanced Television Systems were first introduced to a committe that comprised of 23 members. In 1990 only introductions remained and were all based on analog systems.
In the mid 1991 the prevailing ATV took on a new digital form. In 1995 the FCC was given a detailed all digital ATV system and following some changes the propoal was approved by the FCC in 1996 making it the mandated ATSC (Advance Televison Systems Committee) or more standard form DTV/HDTV broadcasting. After a development of thirty-five years hi-def started to make it’s way into retail outlets. Analog became obsolete on December 31, 2006 which required consumers to purchase a converter box for their analog tv’s so the digital signal could be received. Today you hear hot topics like HD compatible or HD ready.