The world of great picture clarity and the aim to achieve perfection in the world of television has been taken to a whole new level with the introduction of High Definition (HD) cameras sending out HD pictures to HD television sets for customers who love all that comes with HD. HD has entered the world of television, films, sports, and even video gaming with Microsoft and Sony making our television sets, and our egos, feel inferior in front of their superior technology.
While we are still struggling to adapt ourselves to the technology changes that have happened so far, we are suddenly looking at a whole new brand of technology that, once again, we need to catch up to. They say HD television sets are way down in the price tag aspect. Suddenly 720 pixel resolution is not good enough and if you don’t have 1920 x 1080 resolution on the telly, then you might not get invited to the neighbourhood party. Clearly, HD has more far reaching consequences than you might think.
The Support’s There
If you did manage to convince the wife, break the bank and invest in a HD television set, you might wonder if it would be worth it. Yes, the USA would still be dropping the same bombs on random countries while test cricket would still rob your life of precious hours you could have spent enriching your life. However, the point of HD programming is not to show you different things, it is merely to show you things differently!
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There’re tonnes of things to watch in HD too! Channels are constantly offering HD services at greater rates while those who are lucky enough to own a Blu Ray player will be able to see more pixels than they can count to. The picture’s clearer, the audio’s unbelievable and if people show up at your doorstep on Sunday afternoons for film marathons, you can charge them admission – it’s that good!
But before you get ahead of yourself and start buying vending machines, here’s something that you need to know. If you are reading this and making up your mind to go out there and buy an HD television set, then here’s some news – we already have something called HDMI. Now, getting into that is a whole different story but the synopsis of things is that the HDMI stands for High Definition Multimedia Interface, something that allows you connect everything in your home, from your Blu Ray player and gaming console to the Internet and probably your dish washer, to the HD world with one single cable!
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And the Other Thing
One of the key selling points of these HD sets, that manufacturers are trying to make, is that these television sets are greener, more conscious of the energy they use and are better for the environment –so throw away your old telly and get a brand new HD set in its place. While that might make them sound like angels, who knows how much more environmental damage we will cause by throwing away our mercury-filled idiot box that doesn’t get us block-party invites?
However, HD manufacturers are going at it –slimming down the visible frame (or bezel) around the screen as well as making “smart TVs”, which makes your Internet modem quite redundant, because your television set becomes one in its place!
Which brings us to the final point – How do I watch my favourite shows? The answer is “we’re not sure!” Well you see, there’s this agreement that needs to be reached, between advertisers, cable & broadband Internet providers, television studios, film studios, home-video rental stores, CD & DVD manufacturers and pretty much anyone else who stands to have to make significant changes to their primary product.
Now, until these parties don’t reach a consensus on how much money they would be happy to make off of HD, you can guarantee that you will need a specific gadget to watch a specific programme on one channel, quickly switching to a whole new setup for another programme. By the time that conflict gets solved, HD will be out-dated and all that money we spend hoping for looking at our favourite shows in a special way, will go down in vain because the block-party people would have moved onto Eyefinity!
What’s that you ask? Trust me, you don’t want to know!
