Digital Envisions

HDTV seems like something new, but it has been around in different forms since the 70′s. During the 70′s and 80′s, HDTV was being developed in Japan as they were searching for a way to improve the quality of television to sell more TVs. The first system was called MUSE and it supposedly offered customers the highest quality sound and picture available.

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.

Terrestrial Television Broadcasters were the first group. They thought they would lose business because they knew they didn’t have enough bandwidth to service HDTV. The channels they currently had licensed would not be able to deal with the doubled bandwidth of the latest form of TV, and they figured they’d be shut out of the whole market. Another big group of opposers to this new TV kind was congress. They believed that all the Japanese inventions coming into America was a threat and they didn’t want anything else owned by Japan.

With these complaints in mind, the US government searched for ways to invent a new form of HDTV. Groups of researchers were gathered together forming different teams. Each team worked to try and create a system that would be able to fit into existing channels already licensed by broadcasters. After years, the separate teams decided to combing together, and the unity was named 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.

In 1998 the first HDTV went on sale in the States. The very first bunches of sets were sold from five grand to ten grand a piece. Panasonic was the company who made the first TV, and it was sold in California for $5500. The first HDTV broadcast featured the launch of Discovery which is a space shuttle in 1998 as well. Jay Leno’s nightly talk show The Tonight Show was the very first gossip show in HDTV.

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