Tag Archives: HDTV
Desire for 3D
… and the 3D silliness continues. 3DTV marketing ramped up significantly this year, though the vendor sales pitches continue to fall on deaf ears for a number of reasons. Despite the hype, data suggests people generally find the technology expensive, 3D content limited, and the glasses annoying. 3DTV set sales haven’t taken off, and they [...]
HDTV Market Penetration in the UK – Commentary
Floating around a variety of homes whilst on a family vacation has revealed that (from a small sample of 6 homes) that each home had a brand spanking new HDTV. There was not a sign of the old CRT. The most interesting thing though is that only one of these homes made use of true [...]
50 years forward to go back 50
A quick post for Christmas day. The Queen of England has begun the transmission of the Annual message via Youtube. The first few seconds of the broadcast for 2007 included a recording of the first televised message from 1957 with the unmistakable scanlines from the capture of the 411 line transmission used in 1957. On [...]