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The original drive for HDTV came from wide-screen movies. Soon after wide-screen was introduced, movie producers discovered that individuals seated in the first few rows enjoyed a level of participation in the action not possible with conventional movies.

Early in the 1980's movie, producers were offered a high-definition television system developed by Sony and NHK in the late70's. This system, called NHK Hi-vision, and its variants are capable of producing images having essentially the same detail as 35 mm film.

With these systems, a scene could be recorded, played and edited immediately, and then transferred to film.

Consequently, many of the intermediate delays in conventional film production were eliminated. The new medium also offered a number of possibilities for special effects not possible in conventional film production.

Following the introduction of HDTV to the film industry, interest began to build in developing an HDTV system for commercial broadcasting.

Television programming has expanded greatly from just the three big networks to a whole host of other channels. Along with this growth of interest in television programming the technology of televisions has been steadily improving too.

Obviously, watching television is the number one hobby of almost everybody. Everyday people from all over the world are watching their favorite TV shows and movies. One more proof for this, is the high demand of televisions in the market, may it be an analog or a digital TV.

Analog TV is the common television, which we have been using for the past years. The signals are sent and received in analog format and it has worked fine for a long time. Analog television is affordable and can be use for a long period.

It has its drawbacks though because analog TV signals can only hold a certain amount of data for the screen and sound, and an analog signal can degrade easily. While digital TV signals allow the data sent by the TV station to be much dense and include more information without very degradation of signal.

It also makes for a much better picture and sound, especially on DVD's. It has also made it possible for the newer standards of high definition programming. For the absolute best picture and sound the TV station should be broadcasting in high definition (or HDTV), and your TV should be able to receive and process that HDTV signal and display it on a high definition enabled screen.

If all of these criteria are met, the effects are just stunning.

However, many TV stations are not yet broadcasting in HDTV format because it requires them to invest lots of money in new equipment to do so. Of course, they have to invest lots of money in new equipment to do so.

Plasma and LCD screens are also sold in the market. The main advantage of plasma and LCD screens is that they can be very thin to produce, usually they are only 2-3 inches wide and that makes them able to be mounted in many places that CRT screens just cannot go.

On the other hand, plasma and LCD screens are still very expensive.

There is more to go with this television technology. As year goes by millions of high definition television will be greatly improved and sold all over the world, all providing top notch features for the consumers to choose from.