High-definition Television With Its Not Really So Recent Story

By Modesto Garstellion


The Japanese MUSE was the first HDTV system as it promised to offer the best sound and picture. Many think that HDTV is a new venture, but it has actually been around for almost 40 years. Japan was the first to develop a form of HDTV as they wanted to sell a lot more TVs by improving the quality.

Many in the US had mixed responses when it came to bringing HDTV here. In the 80s, the US's National Association of Broadcasters invited Japans public network (NHK) to show us ideas behind their MUSE system. Here in the US, there were however two groups that were totally against introducing the US to HDTV.

The first group was the Terrestrial Television Broadcasters. They were afraid that they would be out of the market when HDTV came along, because they knew that the HDTV needed more bandwidth than a standard TV. The thought that the channels they already had licensed, wouldn't be able to handle the bandwidth of the new form of TV. The second group that was concerned about HDTV was Congress. They felt threatened by all of the Japanese innovations coming into the US, and didn't want to introduce a new form owned by another country.

With this in mind, American government looked for ways to make a new kind of HDTV. Lots of researchers gathered together making many different teams. All teams worked trying to make a system to fit into all of the current channels under license by existing broadcasters. After many years, the different teams merged and formed what was known as The Grand Alliance.

Finally, they discovered the new technology of HDTV would have to be digital in order for everything to fit into the channels that were already under license. They were able to develop a system that was very much different from the Japanese system MUSE. There version of the HDTV was analog, but the version created by American researchers ended up being completely digital.

The first renovated TV set sold in California at the price of $5500. They became available for the first time in the United States in 98. The prices were set at about $5000 to $10000. Panasonic made the first HDTV. The space shuttle called Discovery was the first show to be featured on the HDTV. The Tonight Show whose host is Jay Leno became the very first talk show that was actually aired on HDTV.




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