HDTV: I Can See Clearly Now

December 05, 2005

Old Television Tubes A NEW BILL WAS INTRODUCED in Congress requiring broadcasters to convert to digital TV operations and give up analog spectrum for public safety use. The latest in a series of unenforceable deadlines would occur on December 31, 2006. Will the broadcasters finally broadcast in digital before? I hope so.

So far the HDTV experiment, in my opinion, has failed. The first HDTV television sets began appearing on store shelves in 1998...almost seven years ago. Those who made the mistake of buying early models are now finding they can’t take advantage of the latest and greatest features and peripherals. Broadband component input/output connections gave way to FireWire, which gave way to DVI with HDCP connections, which is now being surpassed by something called HDMI.

Also, television sets are still far too expensive, the technology is too complicated, and programming is still very limited. It seems only nature and sports are available on HDTV. While I do enjoy watching football in HDTV (football was made for HDTV), I wish more programming was available. It's high time the U.S. government kicks the industry in the behind and finally delivers HDTV to the masses. ■

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