[opendtv] Re: News: Nielsen Gives Fuzzy Picture of HDTV Penetration
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:48:31 -0500
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> So all broadcasting is tending to HDTV?
>
> WOuld you care to venture a guess as to when all broadcast
> programming will be delivered in a wide screen HD format?
>
> It took several decades for ALL BROADCASTERS to produce
> everything in color.
By 1966, in the US, all broadcasting was in color, except for the
occasional old movie. Similarly, on FM radio, all broadcasting was high
fidelity maybe even longer ago than that, except for the occasional old
recordings which you can hear even today.
By the mid to late 1970s, virtually all TV audio was high fidelity, even
what came out of the national networks. By the mid 1980s, virtually all
TV audio was stereo.
Doesn't mean that all TV sets could make use of color, hifi sound, or
stereo sound, but that's how virtually all stations were broadcasting
the majority of their shows. And over time, most TV sets could make use
of these advanced features.
That's the trend for DTV as well. Slowly, HD takes over more and more of
the shows that were once only SD. Even our local news, from WUSA-DT, is
wide screen and HD these days. Even if you think that news isn't
"worthy" of being HD.
It doesn't matter whether absolutely 100 percent of all material
broadcast will be HD. What the trend will be is that virtually all
stations and all program types will migrate to HD, simply because people
will notice the fuzzy images of SDTV increasingly, as they buy new sets,
and these people will start tuning out the SD shows.
Oh yeah, and the aspect ratios will trend to 16:9 as this happens. Not
some infinite variety of aspect ratios. For instance, 14:9 will be
phased out, as people buy up 16:9 TVs and quit buying 4:3 TVs, as they
have already done.
> Today, most, but not all, broadcast programming from the
> major networks is produced in HDTV. It is still predominantly
> a Prime Time phenomenon, along with a relatively high
> percentage of network sports broadcasts.
Remember just a couple of years ago, when I said that LCD TVs would take
over and CRT TVs would drop out? And how you insisted that most TVs sold
were still CRTs? It's the same thing on this subject. Trends, Craig.
Bert
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