Television technology has come such a long way in such a short time. Long gone are the days of 12 inch black and white TV's we now live in the age of 42 inch HD plasma Screens and LCD Tv's. TV Technologies are ever growing and its anyones guess what comes next we already have Ultra thin modern flashy TV's and 3D Tvs so what comes next?
3D TV
3D TV is a revolutionary technology in the tv industry that allows us to watch programs and play games in full 3d up until recently the pleasure of watching anything in 3D was reserved for cinema films only but now 3D Television is openly available for purchase. 3D TV works in the same way as your eyes, 2 images from the right and left eye are merged together and processed in your brain to display a 3D image, this is the same for the TV 2 images are overlapped and the glasses seperate each image and send them directly to the correct eye. There is now 3D TV without glasses which uses a special Barrier called the parallax barrier, this is basically like a huge pair of 3D Glasses over the tv screen which shoots out each image into the correct eye to give off the appearance of Full 3D without having to wear glasses. Although 3D TV has been around for a little while not everyone has one the future of 3D TV is a little bit rocky, it is not a neccessity and for some people 3D hurts their eyes so some people are alienated from certain technology because it can't be acessed by everyone.
Sattelite TV
Sattelite Television is one of the most used ways of watching television in england because not everywhere is cabled for Cable TV. Sattelite TV works via sattelite obviously, the company broadcast out the signals to the sattelite which is then broadcast to the sattelite dish on your house. of course there can be problems with signal being recieved due to bad weather or if there is no clear place for the signal to be sent to (like if your house was surrounded by huge trees).
Cable TV
Cable Tv is the other way of watching TV in the uk. Most parts of the UK are cabled underground ready for cable boxes to be installed, the cables used nowadays are Fibre optic instead of copper wiring which means its a lot faster. The cable company sends all their TV channels down the fibre-optic cable into your home. The set-top box 'decodes' and splits the signal it receives - so you only see one channel on your TV.
Interactive TV
Interactive TV is the way you interect with your tv (shocking i know) There are various different ways of interacting with your TV such as Voting for people on the X factor with the red button or playing sky games with your remote, interactive TV has the potential to expand in the future into something better, more interactive, such as choosing different camera angles and such.
High Definition
High Definition TV offers a clearer more vivid and sharp view than other TV's because of the higher amount of pixels that they can fit and then compress into widescreen TV's, it has around 2 milliom pixels per frame. I dont really see a point in HDtv as long as the screen is not blurry and you can see clearly i dont see why you would need to fork out a lot more for a sharper image.
streaming media and internet television/on-demand viewing
Streaming media is a way to watch television shows online that you have missed on TV online via youtube or on their own specific website For example the BBC i player and 4 on demand. the word streaming comes from the way that they are broadcasted to each individual person. i think that Streaming media is really useful because even if there is a +1 repeat channel, there isnt always (bbc3 for example) so if you miss something that you cant see again on TV it will most likely be streamed online.
Digital Recorders
Digital recorders allow you to record television programs as they are broadcast and are then saved onto a hard drive and can be played like a dvd sort of with the basic controls of rewind fast forward stop pause and play meaning you can skip adverts which is always less of a pain than watching them.
Pay Per View
Pay per View is paying For private broadcasts of certain events such as football or wrestling, it is broadcast at the same time but only to those who have payed to watch it. I think pay per view is a step too far with money grubbing companies, if you have sky you're already paying ridiculouse prices for sports channels and then you have to pay more for certain shows.
CGI
CGI (computer generated imagery) is a revolutionary technology that Allows us to Create the impossible in films and TV Shows
Pay Per View
Pay per View is paying For private broadcasts of certain events such as football or wrestling, it is broadcast at the same time but only to those who have payed to watch it. I think pay per view is a step too far with money grubbing companies, if you have sky you're already paying ridiculouse prices for sports channels and then you have to pay more for certain shows.
CGI
CGI (computer generated imagery) is a revolutionary technology that Allows us to Create the impossible in films and TV Shows
