The Future of Television and HDTV

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Jim Carey's character believed he lived within it in 1996's dark comedy The Cable Guy, and really did live within it in 1998's The Truman Show.

Peter Finch as Howard "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" Beale was driven to the brink of madness by it, and ultimately sacrificed for it in 1976's Oscar-winning Network.

It has been brilliant, heartbreaking, amusing, informative, and just plain sordid (Jerry Springer, anyone?). And it is inarguably the most powerful medium in modern history.

But as much as television programming has reflected the attitudes, opinions and – Sometimes – the lowest common denominators of our society, the technology behind it has consistently been groundbreaking.

Though many think of the 1950s as the decade TV began, the very first television technology was in development as far back as the late 1800s. The so-called "electromechanical" technique made use of a rapidly spinning, perforated wheel to produce images no larger than a wallet – a similar approach is used to produce colors in some modern DLP (Digital Light Processing) sets.

The technology used to replace this crude method – the cathode ray tube – had its beginnings before World War I, even though the first commercially available CRT set wasn't released until the 1930s. It seriously makes you wonder what new TV concept is already in the works, doesn't it?

Say Goodbye to CRT, DLP, LCD and Plasma

Source: digitaltrends