@Reee Flex Seriously folks, all I can tell you is what my Japanese Employer, Panasonic told me. Maybe they overly focused on the fact that they had the FIRST HDTV to be sold to the public in the USA. Mitsubishi came out with one 3 weeks later. Given the WORLDWIDE press coverage, It sure looked like the US had the first HDTV.
Got our first HDTV in 2007. My dad bought Japanese Sony PS2 and Sony's HD TV in his business trip in Guandong, China. I was stuck and amazed by how good it was. 10 years later, in 2017 my parents dumped the TV which had no HDMI or internet featured. I secretly kept it to myself to play PS1 and PS2 until we had to move on. 2000's were truly a miracle decade for poor and developing nations such as Kazakhstan (in terms of consumption*)
It’s crazy looking back at how excited people were for 720p and nowadays even that is seen as archaic and outdated. Technology has moved so fast, soon enough 4K will be outdated.
I wouldn't consider 720p too archaic honestly. Nearly all national channels still broadcast in 1080i here in the Netherlands, which is barely any better than 720p. Some regional channels have only moved up to 720p two years ago. Some operators will give you a 1080p signal (or even 4K for a few channels), but even then you'll often see the programmes they're broadcasting were produced in 1080i. Only streaming services do better resolution-wise, but they tend to use a bitrate so low that I prefer the 1080i signal from our cable operator. Now whether or not I'd still use a 720p tv these days is another story.
I got lucky! My sister bought one (for some reason; she wasn’t really a techie, so I’m not sure why she got it) rarely used it, ended up giving it to me. This was YEARS before I even understood what HDTV was. I first realized that it was HD when I got my original Xbox (it may have been the 360) hooked up to it. Lasted me years, until 2010.
I knew about HDTV back in the early 2000s, but my parents didn't really care much about it up until the late 2000s, when they bought their first plasma TV, a Panasonic one ironically. 42 inch. I didn't get my first HDTV until 2010, a Vizio 32 inch. I still have that TV to this day.
i bought my first hdtv in 2008. it was a cheap 32" model from a local brand that everybody shat on, but that tv was awesome. it had pip functionality which no other tv i've ever owned had to this day, it stretched 4:3 images to widescreen without making it look too stretched (it stretched the picture more towards the borders, not the center of the image, so it looked a bit fish-eye, but way more natural than everything just being w i d e) and it was working flawlessly still the last time i saw it, in 2015, as a wall display on a bar.
The First HDTV I ever saw was built by Panasonic, it was a CRT tube 32" and cost $9,995. However, the picture on that TV was amazing, especially with just a standard DVD playing on it, never mind BlueRay. My first HDTV was a Mitsubishi DLP 42" Rear Projection TV, which cost $1750 it lasted me 11 years and I went through 3 bulbs at $135 each. Eventually, the color filters went on it. I broke it down and threw it out.
Incidentally, cinema film projectors were already superior in terms of image quality to any HDTV in 90s, including ones that came out 20 years later (except high end models). That said, excellent archival footage. Thanks for sharing!
@@Thebrothaisback Film isn't unrestrained, it's just not defined by digital pixels. Film has grain, which limits the effective resolution. The ultimate image quality also varies depending on particular film stock, amount of light, lens quality, film processing, etc. If there was no limit, there'd be no need for larger film like 35mm(or 70mm in some cases) - everyone would've just used the smallest film & resulting smallest camera size. General digital equivalents seem to be: 8mm = about 720p max, often lower(partly as mostly used with cheaper home cameras/film) 16mm = up to about 3k 35mm = 4k+ Digital HD doesn't have to use lossy compression(lossless compression shrinks the file size but has no effect on the image), though it typically is for broadcast or streaming.
We had one TV standard for 50 years... But now, there's a new HDTV format that comes out every 1 1/2 years! I literally *just* got a 1080 TV last year in 2017! And now there's some new 4K, 8K, 16K, 32K, OLED, plasma, LED, LCD, QLED etc... etc... etc... every single year!!! I can't keep up!!! I don't have enough money to buy a new TV every year!!!!
Fear Not No need to buy a 4K until there are over the air broadcasts. Even then you will need roughly an 85 inch screen to see a difference in sharpness. Run your existing TV into the ground and then replace it with the current technology( whatever that will be). There is another video you might like: th-cam.com/video/07IHpv4xb2o/w-d-xo.html
4k is the new one and gonna stay for a while, 8 16 32k are all pointless due to the fact you can't game or watch videos native to that. led is the back light, lcd is the display, and qled is just a special lcd. you definetely shouldn't buy a new tv every few years when technology JUst come out, you should wait until its properly adopted.
@@AbdallahTeach It looks like 8k will show up at CES this week. If this is the launch year, we might see 8K TVs ( needed or not ) with affordability in 5 years.
am74343 Hey man, don't worry. 90% of the videos in TH-cam are in 720p or 1080p since 2011... the 4k format isn't even a standard yet... most of the TV shows are still shot in 720p
When it first came out it was. Broadcasts had a raw HD picture, then they started softening up the picture of live shows to reduce wrinkles and other vanity imperfections in tv show hosts. So HD picture at the start looked better than today.
My first HDTV was bought in 2008, but it doesn't have a digital receptor. My first TV with DTV was bought in 2012, and I only saw the high definition when I bought the first HDMI cable in 2013, and the first digital transmition came in my city in that same time (yeah, I live in a very underdeveloped region).
Make no mistake: they were talking about this in the early 80's and were trying to figure out the bandwidth issue. Sending high definition as an analog signal through the air would cause all kinds of problems. You can see them discuss it in some real old Popular Mechanics magazines.
The Japanese managed to broadcast analog HD in the early 90s though. They even developed W-VHS to go along with it (though W-VHS is barely an analog format)
I never know that high definition TVs exist back in late 90s I remember back in 2009 when all tv stations seized analog signals broadcasting signals to switch it to digital every local stations show the DTV programming to get people prepared for the digital transition and I heard that a public tv station in north carolina first broadcast in high definition in 1996 so yea now have 4k but high definition is still around far as I know
Non experimental HDTV signals were broadcast side by with analog stating around 2002. The first 4K TV launched in 2012 at $25000. Tonight the first 8K will launch. Stay tuned for the 8K Launch video in the next couple of months . Thanks for watching.
I was born in 1999, we didn’t get out FIRST HD flat panel (Sony Bravia) until mid 2008 after I got my PS3 as that was the push with blu-Ray and gaming at that time. We had a MASSIVE Mitsubishi rear projection TV before that, it started getting all sorts of whacked out after a few years, I remember using CRTs all throughout the early to mid 2000s, this is crazy to watch!
Back then there were no HD video players, so the video had to come from an in-store ATSC modulator made by Sencore and cost 10x of the tv itself (about $25,000).
There effectively were, but weren't very common, and required a seperate decoder. Hi-Vision laserdisks, though they were designed for Japan where 'MUSE' encoded 1035i video had been broadcast as an analog signal since 1989!(albeit officially/commercially in 1991). People could've also connected their computers, but any HD files to play on them would probably have been rare. Good for games or presentations though.
@@Thebrothaisback Anamorphic DVDs were available from 1997, which used the full(but only standard def) resolution(no black bars in the stored image), the TV then stretched it to 16:9
My parents didn’t buy their first HDTV(720p) until April 2006 when I was 10. It’s funny in 2004-2005 a lot of sports broadcasts had standard and HD cameras at the same time.
judging by the world wide press that converged on San Diego it sure looks like HDTV premiered here. I worked at Panasonic from 1985 to 2002. No one ever mentioned HDTV anywhere else. If you google "CES THE DOCUMENTARY you will see plenty of HDTV prototypes from Japan starting in 1983. I am not saying you are wrong. I am saying that this is the first I am reading about any 1980s release of HDTV to the public. It sure was a well kept secret within Panasonic US
Yep, Wikipedia shows us that Japan’s MUSE system beat us to the punch with HDTV in homes prior to 1998. You can see by the world wide coverage that it looks like the US had the first HDTV. Truth be told, it looks like US had the first sustainable HDTV. Digital technology was quite an advance over Japan’s bandwidth-hungry and expensive analogue MUSE system. CES The Documentary covers every CES since 1983 and shows HDTV prototypes dating back to at least 1983. th-cam.com/video/07IHpv4xb2o/w-d-xo.html No HDTV display made any mention of HDTV being in use anywhere else. Public HDTV broadcast prior to 1998 appears to be a well-kept secret, even from industry insiders.
1998!? We didnt have our first HDTV until 2008. I remember my Mom telling me my Dad won some kind of award at work where he got a check to buy an HDTV. At the time in the early 2000s it was a very small HDTV so instead they took the money and bought a huge standard def TV!
My uncle had one of those Panasonic tvs, I loved coming over to his house to watch movies in that monster of a screen. Of course they were DVD so no real HD, although most of them were in widescreen. My first HD tv was a Sharp 37” LCD 720p/1080i screen I bought in 2007, the picture was just gorgeous.
My first HD"TV" was a 22" BenQ "Widescreen" 16:10 (8:5) Monitor in 2007. I had my Xbox 360 connected to it with slight vertical stretching. I think it barely qualifies as my first HDTV. Other then that my first actual HDTV was in 2020 with a 2020 Hisense H9G 65" 4K.
@@redstonecaptain8007 I know exactly what your trying to say. And the answer is no. For most broadcasts, HD cameras weren't widespread as they are now. However, if you type in HD New York City in TH-cam, you can see NYC in 1999 filmed in HD similar to the quality of today.
I got a panasonic back projector 4:3 with video comb (digital) in 2002. it came down in price. it was a 60 inch too. huge, weighed like 250 pounds. wasn't truly a digital tv but it I guess had a digital filter comb which made it 480 progressive on the new progressive component plugin for dvd players. We didn't get our very first wide-screen tv which was 780p until like 2009. then I broke the piece of crap and got a 1080 42 inch the following year. but i could sometimes see the audio off a bit. the refresh was low. my my how much they have come down. first 42 inch were around 20,000 USD.
This is the kind of exitnente we should have for the 8K resolution! Just watching an 8K youtube video on my 2K monitor i can see more details and overall quality, so imagine it on a 75' oled tv... that's just incredible! Imagine watching a whole movie in 8K without netflix compression, maybe stored and sold on an high-speed usb stick... It's just amazing! But no, people have to say that our eyes aren't capable to see quality differencies after 1080p resolution, which is one massive BS! Unfortanetly nowadays people watching movies even from smartphones, which is sad, since you're loosing all the details and quality that the movie can offer on a tv. But people doesn't stop there, they firmly believe that higher quality than netflix's 1080p can't be seen by human eyes LMAO. Go 8K, go high-bitrate!!!
What is the name of the music playing on the 30 seconds of this video? It was used as a news theme for a TV station in Shreveport, LA in the late 1990s.
jacky9br TBH, Bossier Parish Community College or "BPCC" use this news theme only for these intros. I call the college station and they didn't have information about the music. Of what the lady told me, it was production music from FirstCom. I look on FirstCom but no luck.
Wow if they tought they were like looking through a window their minds would be blown if they seen a modern OLED. Still didn’t know it was as early as 97 that HDTV was released though.
Aug 6 1998 was the date of the product release. Panasonic paid $1750.00 per day for a broadcast tape player to demo the source material. There were experimental broadcasts until around 2002. It was an exciting time.
You see them listed for nothing, just asking to be taken out of their garage. They don't have HDMI, not even DVI, pure component analog inputs on the back for HDTV that can only handle up to 1080i, not even 1080P. Most game systems and bluray players from the last few years only have HDMI on the outputs, so you can't even hook this TV or similar models from Mitsubishi of this era etc up to anything modern. You would have to find a older stereo system AVR or converter just to find the analog component outs now.. Funny thing was, all the Hollywood production companies were sacred stiff about the "analog hole" that these TV's were supposedly easily leaving open to piracy. Never mind there was hardly any devices available to the consumer directly that could record component analog, let alone in high definition. They had some analog W-VHS decks from Japan that could record Hi-vision broadcasts, but even those were not fully HD, and still had a lot of the VHS video characteristics. I remember seeing some demo's of early HDTV back in 1998, and the recordings they had with a W-VHS deck (high end A/V store at the time) didn't look as clean as the satellite feed they had for their projection system. It was HD resolution, and widescreen and better than DVD, but not quite as vibrant in color, and more analog noise because of the nature of the tape format.
Terminology has changed since then. We call them smart tvs but the high definition quality today (4k and 8k) blows high definition of the late 1990s out of the water. Plus the bigger screens back then had to be rear projection because the technology did not exist yet to manufacture flat panel big screen tvs. Back then a 55 inch screen was considered a big screen tv. Now that is average size and today the big screens are 75" and up.
I forget that stores used to have huge parties for big new technology launches like this, I don't remember 4k getting this kind of fan fare, Also my family's first HDTV was a Pioneer Elite PRO 730HDI rear projection TV, it was big and heavy and apparently only 65in, I thought it was like 85 at least.
You are right about 4K not getting the fanfare. You can see the first US 4K launch at the links below: First Ever US 4K Launch: th-cam.com/video/aJcZfw7Zzi4/w-d-xo.html Other Product Launches: CES th-cam.com/video/07IHpv4xb2o/w-d-xo.html
I got a Sony 42" plasma in 2004...$8k at Circuit City...do you remember VOOM, the first satellite provider with all HD? I had it installed the same day as the tv...it went out of business a year later and I had to get Dish Network! Just replaced the Sony last fall...
I could be wrong but I don't think it did. I think these early TVs had the composite cables only with 720p. I don't think HDMI was around for another couple years. But as I said I could be wrong about all that. Just what I seem to remember.
It likely had, composite, S-Video, VGA, and Component analog that could handle up to 1080i. The VGA probably was also another analog component HD input. It would be interesting to know the model number, as I don't think this TV would have have had a digital tuner built in. But maybe it did being a high end rear projection TV. A lot of the early HD ready CRT's didn't have a digital tuner because it was not mandated to be installed into a TV by the FCC at the time. That came much later when the digital transition was done in 2009. So you had to get an external ATSC tuner box that had component outputs, some even had Firewire outputs. But that didn't last long when HDMI got finalized. Mitsubishi had a lot of TV's with the Firewire input, I believe it was bi-directional, so the TV could tell the external tuner box to tune to a different channel, like it was on a control network of sorts. They had other devices that would use the Firewire to communicate between and pass the video. But it was soon considered a way freely record anything the tuner was on, and Hollywood went ape-shit over copy protection once again..
Although the first HDTVs were roughly twice the price of Analog Big Screens of the time, early adopters in need of a replacement Big Screen bought HDTVs as a future proofing measure. The Deinterlacing and wide screen conversion was an improved viewing experience that was immediately available.
not long after 98 the D-THEATER D-VHS came on the market. they max out at 1080i not 1080p but they still look great in 2019 - especially for what is essentially a high speed, digital VHS! they were also somewhat cheap for the time. 50GB storage for about $35-45 retail. DTH died off around 02 but is still used by archivists today
At that time 720i resolution wich is worse than HD-Ready, through a CRT TV was described as looking through a window, I wonder what they would have thought if they had seen an 80" OLED 8K TV, they probably would have fainted. LOL
Our demo on Aug 6 1998 was 1080!. Panasonic paid 1750.00 per day to rent a 1080i source. The TV was $5699.00. We sold all 3 and had 100% of the HDTV market until Mitsubishi introduced their HDTV 3 weeks later.
I remember when truckers were advised to have plenty of fuel to drive 200 miles from bordertowns when picking up these loads. A security guard had his head struck and a load of Flatscreens stolen in Otay Mesa.
2007 we got our first HDTV before that we had one of those massive colour tvs with the glass screen which made that awful high pitched sound when you turned it on
Those are CRT TV which was refer as Cathode Ray Tube TV due that TV having Huge Tube Glass having Inside a lot of cathode and electron inside with magnets that moves those electron leff and right so rapidly making the image. Unless you use the camera and record it and slow it down, it will be unpercievable to the human eyes.
I can't believe I was still watching Regular Show and playing Wii games on a 4:3 box TV in 2011
Most people couldn't afford those HDTVs so yeah. Now 4k TV's are cheap
Me too, the differrence is.....
I still use it
You still can't beat a CRT television for retro video gaming.
@@AshesHereos Its the best option
first time playing ps3 cod4 on a 19inch lcd 720p i was hooked like it was a second life i was experiencing it seemed so clear. in 2008
I appreciate people who upload these historical videos for future generations
Thank you very much. Your appreciation is my pay since these are not viral videos.
I totally agree. Brings us back in time. Man how it's changed. Ty for doing this.
@@animal482 Thanks for the kind words and thanks for watching.
@Reee Flex WHAT????? The newscast not being entirely accurate? I am shocked! SHOCKED I TELL YOU!! Shocked.
@Reee Flex Seriously folks, all I can tell you is what my Japanese Employer, Panasonic told me. Maybe they overly focused on the fact that they had the FIRST HDTV to be sold to the public in the USA. Mitsubishi came out with one 3 weeks later. Given the WORLDWIDE press coverage, It sure looked like the US had the first HDTV.
23 years later and now we’re all basically carrying HDTVs in our pockets
FHD+ for current smartphones....
Basically 2k TVs now
In a few more years everyone will have a BCTV;
Brain Chip TV
Haha yep thank God!
I know right. If you would've told me this at the time when I was like 11 I would've looked at you like you were crazy
Got our first HDTV in 2007. My dad bought Japanese Sony PS2 and Sony's HD TV in his business trip in Guandong, China. I was stuck and amazed by how good it was. 10 years later, in 2017 my parents dumped the TV which had no HDMI or internet featured. I secretly kept it to myself to play PS1 and PS2 until we had to move on. 2000's were truly a miracle decade for poor and developing nations such as Kazakhstan (in terms of consumption*)
Sounds like you've got an interesting story to tell with gaming. I'm fascinated by the old east bloc countries in the 2000s with games.
I'm from Brazil and can attest what u said, my friend.
Very cool story!
So your dad could afford an HDTV but not a PS3? By 2007 the PS2 was likely already available in Kazahstan since a long time before that.
Imagine their faces if they teleported an 8K tv from 2022 into 1998. They’d be dropping dead from amazement
It’s crazy looking back at how excited people were for 720p and nowadays even that is seen as archaic and outdated. Technology has moved so fast, soon enough 4K will be outdated.
And now we have 8k TVs.
I wouldn't consider 720p too archaic honestly. Nearly all national channels still broadcast in 1080i here in the Netherlands, which is barely any better than 720p. Some regional channels have only moved up to 720p two years ago. Some operators will give you a 1080p signal (or even 4K for a few channels), but even then you'll often see the programmes they're broadcasting were produced in 1080i. Only streaming services do better resolution-wise, but they tend to use a bitrate so low that I prefer the 1080i signal from our cable operator.
Now whether or not I'd still use a 720p tv these days is another story.
Those TVs were HDTV ready. Sadly, probably went bad before hd broadcasting became readily available.
I got lucky! My sister bought one (for some reason; she wasn’t really a techie, so I’m not sure why she got it) rarely used it, ended up giving it to me. This was YEARS before I even understood what HDTV was.
I first realized that it was HD when I got my original Xbox (it may have been the 360) hooked up to it.
Lasted me years, until 2010.
Mark W nice it lasted that long
Considering universal HD was about a decade out, I’d say you’re right.
All there really was then were component cables for 480p DVDs or the odd high def analog format that normal people couldn’t afford
Early adopters, I bet they had the latest and greatest by that time anyway.
I knew about HDTV back in the early 2000s, but my parents didn't really care much about it up until the late 2000s, when they bought their first plasma TV, a Panasonic one ironically. 42 inch. I didn't get my first HDTV until 2010, a Vizio 32 inch. I still have that TV to this day.
i bought my first hdtv in 2008. it was a cheap 32" model from a local brand that everybody shat on, but that tv was awesome. it had pip functionality which no other tv i've ever owned had to this day, it stretched 4:3 images to widescreen without making it look too stretched (it stretched the picture more towards the borders, not the center of the image, so it looked a bit fish-eye, but way more natural than everything just being w i d e) and it was working flawlessly still the last time i saw it, in 2015, as a wall display on a bar.
It’s unfortunate that almost all HDTVs from the 90’s no longer are functional.
But they are digital capable
@@tristen14robloxoffical I meant the TVs themselves don’t work anymore
God those acoustic guitars sounded so organic compared to the background music we often hear now
You know the worlds fucked when you’re comparing the background teleshopping music
I was born that day. Wow!
Are you a HDTV?!
I was gonna say baby but shit me too. This was like 9 days before my 9th birthday. Lol
Mom: "No son of mine ain't gonna be hd ready"
The First HDTV I ever saw was built by Panasonic, it was a CRT tube 32" and cost $9,995. However, the picture on that TV was amazing, especially with just a standard DVD playing on it, never mind BlueRay.
My first HDTV was a Mitsubishi DLP 42" Rear Projection TV, which cost $1750 it lasted me 11 years and I went through 3 bulbs at $135 each. Eventually, the color filters went on it. I broke it down and threw it out.
Like looking out of a window... huh, never saw it that way.
then you must have dirty windows
@@sj7624 lmao
Incidentally, cinema film projectors were already superior in terms of image quality to any HDTV in 90s, including ones that came out 20 years later (except high end models). That said, excellent archival footage. Thanks for sharing!
Film is more than hd
Yeah but you can't watch live television with a film projector
@@SuperSy99 film is organic and unrestrained while HD digital is compressed.
@@Thebrothaisback Film isn't unrestrained, it's just not defined by digital pixels. Film has grain, which limits the effective resolution. The ultimate image quality also varies depending on particular film stock, amount of light, lens quality, film processing, etc.
If there was no limit, there'd be no need for larger film like 35mm(or 70mm in some cases) - everyone would've just used the smallest film & resulting smallest camera size.
General digital equivalents seem to be:
8mm = about 720p max, often lower(partly as mostly used with cheaper home cameras/film)
16mm = up to about 3k
35mm = 4k+
Digital HD doesn't have to use lossy compression(lossless compression shrinks the file size but has no effect on the image), though it typically is for broadcast or streaming.
In my house, in Tijuana (México), we bought our first HD TV in 2013. A great experience. And the first 4K tv a few months ago this 2023. Fantastic.
We had one TV standard for 50 years... But now, there's a new HDTV format that comes out every 1 1/2 years!
I literally *just* got a 1080 TV last year in 2017! And now there's some new 4K, 8K, 16K, 32K, OLED, plasma, LED, LCD, QLED etc... etc... etc... every single year!!! I can't keep up!!! I don't have enough money to buy a new TV every year!!!!
Fear Not
No need to buy a 4K until there are over the air broadcasts. Even then you will need roughly an 85 inch screen to see a difference in sharpness. Run your existing TV into the ground and then replace it with the current technology( whatever that will be).
There is another video you might like: th-cam.com/video/07IHpv4xb2o/w-d-xo.html
then don't all those new TVs are in 16:9 anyways.
4k is the new one and gonna stay for a while, 8 16 32k are all pointless due to the fact you can't game or watch videos native to that.
led is the back light, lcd is the display, and qled is just a special lcd.
you definetely shouldn't buy a new tv every few years when technology JUst come out, you should wait until its properly adopted.
@@AbdallahTeach It looks like 8k will show up at CES this week. If this is the launch year, we might see 8K TVs ( needed or not ) with affordability in 5 years.
am74343 Hey man, don't worry. 90% of the videos in TH-cam are in 720p or 1080p since 2011... the 4k format isn't even a standard yet... most of the TV shows are still shot in 720p
I remember when my local news station station started saying 'You are watching us live in glorious 1080p'
"It's like looking through a window" best line ever lol
In comparison it is not even wrong. 1080p is 6.7 the resolution. But I'm almost certain they are talking about HD ready with is only 720p.
@@tenj00 The muse system back then did close to 1080, about 1035lines
@@BavarianM a slightly dirty window then. with a insect sreen installed ;)
When it first came out it was. Broadcasts had a raw HD picture, then they started softening up the picture of live shows to reduce wrinkles and other vanity imperfections in tv show hosts. So HD picture at the start looked better than today.
My first HDTV was bought in 2008, but it doesn't have a digital receptor. My first TV with DTV was bought in 2012, and I only saw the high definition when I bought the first HDMI cable in 2013, and the first digital transmition came in my city in that same time (yeah, I live in a very underdeveloped region).
Make no mistake: they were talking about this in the early 80's and were trying to figure out the bandwidth issue. Sending high definition as an analog signal through the air would cause all kinds of problems. You can see them discuss it in some real old Popular Mechanics magazines.
@Clint O'Connell The resolution was still lower than what we call HD today however.
Zenith was the company that developed the current standard. They had been researching HDTV since then. Then they went bankrupt in the 90s.
The Japanese managed to broadcast analog HD in the early 90s though. They even developed W-VHS to go along with it (though W-VHS is barely an analog format)
@@SterkeYerke5555 Thank goodness they found out what a huge mistake that was.
I never know that high definition TVs exist back in late 90s I remember back in 2009 when all tv stations seized analog signals broadcasting signals to switch it to digital every local stations show the DTV programming to get people prepared for the digital transition and I heard that a public tv station in north carolina first broadcast in high definition in 1996 so yea now have 4k but high definition is still around far as I know
Non experimental HDTV signals were broadcast side by with analog stating around 2002. The first 4K TV launched in 2012 at $25000. Tonight the first 8K will launch. Stay tuned for the 8K Launch video in the next couple of months . Thanks for watching.
@@rogeravideo1 Yea I heard about 8k TVs will be available soon
@@rogeravideo1 You realize the Japanese were watching HD Tvs in the early 80's right?
I would not be surprised
@@douglasmatthews2334 It was around 1982.
Six years before I was born too! My family was still using a CRT (2005 Toshiba) Standard-def TV until 2011
I was working at Magnolia when 4K dropped. It was the same hype then too. $8,000 tvs were flying out the door.
I was born in 1999, we didn’t get out FIRST HD flat panel (Sony Bravia) until mid 2008 after I got my PS3 as that was the push with blu-Ray and gaming at that time. We had a MASSIVE Mitsubishi rear projection TV before that, it started getting all sorts of whacked out after a few years, I remember using CRTs all throughout the early to mid 2000s, this is crazy to watch!
You might enjoy all these other firsts th-cam.com/video/07IHpv4xb2o/w-d-xo.html
Back then there were no HD video players, so the video had to come from an in-store ATSC modulator made by Sencore and cost 10x of the tv itself (about $25,000).
Sencore. Now, there is a name that jogs a memory. Which company were, or are you with?
Then came d-vhs. The initial appeal was watching movies in widescreen HD and recording.
There effectively were, but weren't very common, and required a seperate decoder. Hi-Vision laserdisks, though they were designed for Japan where 'MUSE' encoded 1035i video had been broadcast as an analog signal since 1989!(albeit officially/commercially in 1991).
People could've also connected their computers, but any HD files to play on them would probably have been rare. Good for games or presentations though.
@@Thebrothaisback Anamorphic DVDs were available from 1997, which used the full(but only standard def) resolution(no black bars in the stored image), the TV then stretched it to 16:9
Dang, in 98 DVDs were still new, we got our first HDTV in like 2002 (Well my grandparents did, grandpa was doing mortgage stuff)
those tv's were huge back then. Went I see one I say wow... and I love the old techno, meaning the way it was film for this video
The firsts were rear projections and CRT.
My parents didn’t buy their first HDTV(720p) until April 2006 when I was 10. It’s funny in 2004-2005 a lot of sports broadcasts had standard and HD cameras at the same time.
First ever HDTV sold to the public was not in the late 90s in the US. It was the early 80's in Japan.
judging by the world wide press that converged on San Diego it sure looks like HDTV premiered here.
I worked at Panasonic from 1985 to 2002. No one ever mentioned HDTV anywhere else. If you google "CES THE DOCUMENTARY you will see plenty of HDTV prototypes from Japan starting in 1983. I am not saying you are wrong. I am saying that this is the first I am reading about any 1980s release of HDTV to the public. It sure was a well kept secret within Panasonic US
Yep, Wikipedia shows us that Japan’s MUSE system beat us to the punch with HDTV in homes prior to 1998.
You can see by the world wide coverage that it looks like the US had the first HDTV. Truth be told, it looks like US had the first sustainable HDTV. Digital technology was quite an advance over Japan’s bandwidth-hungry and expensive analogue MUSE system.
CES The Documentary covers every CES since 1983 and shows HDTV prototypes dating back to at least 1983.
th-cam.com/video/07IHpv4xb2o/w-d-xo.html
No HDTV display made any mention of HDTV being in use anywhere else. Public HDTV broadcast prior to 1998 appears to be a well-kept secret, even from industry insiders.
1998!? We didnt have our first HDTV until 2008. I remember my Mom telling me my Dad won some kind of award at work where he got a check to buy an HDTV. At the time in the early 2000s it was a very small HDTV so instead they took the money and bought a huge standard def TV!
Haha man that was excellent, especially the “the end” sequence 😅 CGI and music are both on point
We just got our new 8K set.
Thanks, NHK!
Zenith developed the American standard.
The beginng of the HD era, I believe this was when 720p was born.
My uncle had one of those Panasonic tvs, I loved coming over to his house to watch movies in that monster of a screen. Of course they were DVD so no real HD, although most of them were in widescreen. My first HD tv was a Sharp 37” LCD 720p/1080i screen I bought in 2007, the picture was just gorgeous.
When did he get it?
@@rogeravideo1 Around 1999-00
@@FadriqueFM This makes your family one of the earliest adopters of HDTV
Did your uncle not know about D-Theater tapes (1080i) or did he not want to invest in them?
@@ThePreciseClimber I don’t believe he did, I remember only having seen VHSs and DVDs.
I still use my 2009 Samsung 37" full hd tv. Looks amazing
My first HD"TV" was a 22" BenQ "Widescreen" 16:10 (8:5) Monitor in 2007. I had my Xbox 360 connected to it with slight vertical stretching. I think it barely qualifies as my first HDTV. Other then that my first actual HDTV was in 2020 with a 2020 Hisense H9G 65" 4K.
Even though these projection screens came out many people still stuck with there old box tv
I had that feeling looking through a window on a 8K tv first time lol and they amazed of a HD tv
We got our first HD TV in 2012. Got it on Black Friday at Kohl's of all places
I didn't get one until 2012
It's like looking through a window... in a box.
Is it possible to deinterlace this to 60fps and reupload? If you need me to elaborate, just ask
4:23 Worthwhile to own a HDTV to watch...
From 1980 to December 31 2004 WAS GOLD Color Age
From 2005 To present today is current Full HD 4K 3D lcd TV
I was almost 6 then
Is the 1990s really as old as what we watch on TV?
@@redstonecaptain8007 I know exactly what your trying to say. And the answer is no. For most broadcasts, HD cameras weren't widespread as they are now. However, if you type in HD New York City in TH-cam, you can see NYC in 1999 filmed in HD similar to the quality of today.
I was born 6 years after🤣
@@healthyking9999 Thank you so much! Now I discover the truth of the history!
nope. HDTV was invented by SONY back in 1981. This may be the first HDTV in the states, but this is not the first HDTV.
1:09 KGB on a black van 😂
You noticed! 🤣
I got a panasonic back projector 4:3 with video comb (digital) in 2002. it came down in price. it was a 60 inch too. huge, weighed like 250 pounds. wasn't truly a digital tv but it I guess had a digital filter comb which made it 480 progressive on the new progressive component plugin for dvd players. We didn't get our very first wide-screen tv which was 780p until like 2009. then I broke the piece of crap and got a 1080 42 inch the following year. but i could sometimes see the audio off a bit. the refresh was low. my my how much they have come down. first 42 inch were around 20,000 USD.
This is the kind of exitnente we should have for the 8K resolution!
Just watching an 8K youtube video on my 2K monitor i can see more details and overall quality, so imagine it on a 75' oled tv... that's just incredible!
Imagine watching a whole movie in 8K without netflix compression, maybe stored and sold on an high-speed usb stick...
It's just amazing!
But no, people have to say that our eyes aren't capable to see quality differencies after 1080p resolution, which is one massive BS!
Unfortanetly nowadays people watching movies even from smartphones, which is sad, since you're loosing all the details and quality that the movie can offer on a tv.
But people doesn't stop there, they firmly believe that higher quality than netflix's 1080p can't be seen by human eyes LMAO.
Go 8K, go high-bitrate!!!
What is the name of the music playing on the 30 seconds of this video? It was used as a news theme for a TV station in Shreveport, LA in the late 1990s.
jacky9br I definitely want to know. I think this is the whole package I believe
I think so, too. Every news promo and segment I have found from KTAL from 1997-2001 only includes portions of this 30 second theme with nothing else.
jacky9br TBH, Bossier Parish Community College or "BPCC" use this news theme only for these intros. I call the college station and they didn't have information about the music. Of what the lady told me, it was production music from FirstCom. I look on FirstCom but no luck.
jacky9br th-cam.com/video/cZWUY4qozWQ/w-d-xo.html
Here's a newscast from BPCC
I wonder if you can contact FirstCom to inquire. Interestingly, KLFY, another Nexstar station, used FirstCom music before being acquired by them.
Wow if they tought they were like looking through a window their minds would be blown if they seen a modern OLED. Still didn’t know it was as early as 97 that HDTV was released though.
Japan had analog HDTV in 1989.
Aug 6 1998 was the date of the product release. Panasonic paid $1750.00 per day for a broadcast tape player to demo the source material. There were experimental broadcasts until around 2002. It was an exciting time.
Watching this on my 4k screen on my phone is hilarious 🤣
Closer for four days after I was born.
I just remember how insanely expensive they were when they first came out
Just like the new OLED TVs today. About $7000
These are the TVs now that owners pay people to take on Craigslist..lol
You see them listed for nothing, just asking to be taken out of their garage. They don't have HDMI, not even DVI, pure component analog inputs on the back for HDTV that can only handle up to 1080i, not even 1080P. Most game systems and bluray players from the last few years only have HDMI on the outputs, so you can't even hook this TV or similar models from Mitsubishi of this era etc up to anything modern. You would have to find a older stereo system AVR or converter just to find the analog component outs now.. Funny thing was, all the Hollywood production companies were sacred stiff about the "analog hole" that these TV's were supposedly easily leaving open to piracy. Never mind there was hardly any devices available to the consumer directly that could record component analog, let alone in high definition. They had some analog W-VHS decks from Japan that could record Hi-vision broadcasts, but even those were not fully HD, and still had a lot of the VHS video characteristics. I remember seeing some demo's of early HDTV back in 1998, and the recordings they had with a W-VHS deck (high end A/V store at the time) didn't look as clean as the satellite feed they had for their projection system. It was HD resolution, and widescreen and better than DVD, but not quite as vibrant in color, and more analog noise because of the nature of the tape format.
12k resolution and more available already since 1950s tru 70mm film cinema theater
Not for tv material
Terminology has changed since then. We call them smart tvs but the high definition quality today (4k and 8k) blows high definition of the late 1990s out of the water. Plus the bigger screens back then had to be rear projection because the technology did not exist yet to manufacture flat panel big screen tvs. Back then a 55 inch screen was considered a big screen tv. Now that is average size and today the big screens are 75" and up.
25 years ago this month!
the first ever hdtv system to be sold to the public was in 1989 in Japan
My dad spent like $4,000 on a Panasonic 42" Plasma TV back in 2006. Now, you can buy like five 50" LED TVs with that kind of money.
1998 - Made HDTV's
2007 - Presented HDTV's
Man maybe one day I'll be able to afford one of these for now I guess I'll have to stick to my 4k qled
My father bought a samsung tv in 98 and we had it till 2010 when we got our first LED HDTV.
I did have the "looking into a window" experience when I first saw 4K in a store back in 2014.
Really sorry America but 720i does not really cut it.
And Lawrence of Arabia from 1962 was technically filmed in 8K resolution. We had to go through a couple of steps to glance at its glory.
70 mm film native resolution is 12k and more i think.
I'm enjoying watching this on my 4k Oled laptop🤣
Still watching 480p freeTV over Satellite here in Germany.
Germans sticked for too long to 4:3 and the Bruch ahem PAL system.
That's pretty pathetic honestly!
Nope. Orange County. Panasonic dispatched me to document the event and put the news clips together.
i never had an hdtv until 2014 xD
I turned 7 on that day lol
I forget that stores used to have huge parties for big new technology launches like this, I don't remember 4k getting this kind of fan fare, Also my family's first HDTV was a Pioneer Elite PRO 730HDI rear projection TV, it was big and heavy and apparently only 65in, I thought it was like 85 at least.
You are right about 4K not getting the fanfare. You can see the first US 4K launch at the links below:
First Ever US 4K Launch:
th-cam.com/video/aJcZfw7Zzi4/w-d-xo.html
Other Product Launches:
CES
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@@rogeravideo1 lol, Phill Jones is at that launch for sony 4k TV's, he's the head of product marketing for Denon and marantz now.
@@Edward135i Yep. Sony lost a good one when they lost him.
It took about another 10 years to really catch on
20 years.
I wasn’t too far behind, I got my first 42in Plasma LG in 2004.
I got a Sony 42" plasma in 2004...$8k at Circuit City...do you remember VOOM, the first satellite provider with all HD? I had it installed the same day as the tv...it went out of business a year later and I had to get Dish Network! Just replaced the Sony last fall...
This video was made six days after I was born.
Does anyone have information on this theme song from 0:00-0:31?
you can try shazam
It has vibes from this album I stumbled upon th-cam.com/video/bStsA4DK0bs/w-d-xo.html
720р 1280*720рх ~1MPx?
Who’s watching this on a 4K TV? 😄
Nowadays, people in the United States including Los Angeles County, California had ether 4K or 8K TVs.
I want to see the first USA Broadcast of HD programs
I was only 4 month when this came out
@The Blue Max 713 didn't ask you to, beat it.
i had a box sdtv until 2013 when i was born the tvs were still square
Does it have HDMI support?
I could be wrong but I don't think it did. I think these early TVs had the composite cables only with 720p. I don't think HDMI was around for another couple years. But as I said I could be wrong about all that. Just what I seem to remember.
@Martin M my Sony Trinitron 30HS420 is 1080i and has HDMI
@Martin M They probably also supported component, VGA, DVI, and/or S-video.
Most likely component...but composite for sure
It likely had, composite, S-Video, VGA, and Component analog that could handle up to 1080i. The VGA probably was also another analog component HD input. It would be interesting to know the model number, as I don't think this TV would have have had a digital tuner built in. But maybe it did being a high end rear projection TV. A lot of the early HD ready CRT's didn't have a digital tuner because it was not mandated to be installed into a TV by the FCC at the time. That came much later when the digital transition was done in 2009. So you had to get an external ATSC tuner box that had component outputs, some even had Firewire outputs. But that didn't last long when HDMI got finalized. Mitsubishi had a lot of TV's with the Firewire input, I believe it was bi-directional, so the TV could tell the external tuner box to tune to a different channel, like it was on a control network of sorts. They had other devices that would use the Firewire to communicate between and pass the video. But it was soon considered a way freely record anything the tuner was on, and Hollywood went ape-shit over copy protection once again..
I am still waiting for 21 by 9 tvs
DOES ANYONE KNOWS WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE FREAKING INTRODUCTION MUSIC IN THE BEGINNING????
Thats steal its only 16:9 while normal tvs actually capable of 720p
How did this get in my recommended.
what!? seriously!? i thought the first hd tv came out at least in 2005!
That might have been enhanced not HD.
@@hydrolito ohhhhh that makes a lot of sense actually!
4k Oled: that's cute
1998 is sure ancient in the world of Electronics.
There was HD broadcast at that time? It looks useless to buy it if there was no TV Show at HD. Its like these 8k TVs today, there is no 8K Broadcast
Although the first HDTVs were roughly twice the price of Analog Big Screens of the time, early adopters in need of a replacement Big Screen bought HDTVs as a future proofing measure. The Deinterlacing and wide screen conversion was an improved viewing experience that was immediately available.
not long after 98 the D-THEATER D-VHS came on the market. they max out at 1080i not 1080p but they still look great in 2019 - especially for what is essentially a high speed, digital VHS! they were also somewhat cheap for the time. 50GB storage for about $35-45 retail.
DTH died off around 02 but is still used by archivists today
watching thisnon a 4k device
The music oh my goooooooooooood
At that time 720i resolution wich is worse than HD-Ready, through a CRT TV was described as looking through a window, I wonder what they would have thought if they had seen an 80" OLED 8K TV, they probably would have fainted. LOL
Our demo on Aug 6 1998 was 1080!. Panasonic paid 1750.00 per day to rent a 1080i source. The TV was $5699.00. We sold all 3 and had 100% of the HDTV market until Mitsubishi introduced their HDTV 3 weeks later.
8K TV introduced
People: yawn
For me its actually crazy 8k is a thing
I remember when truckers were advised to have plenty of fuel to drive 200 miles from bordertowns when picking up these loads. A security guard had his head struck and a load of Flatscreens stolen in Otay Mesa.
the radio stations came out to cover this!?!? this is sad.
Does anyone know the model number of this TV?
2007 we got our first HDTV before that we had one of those massive colour tvs with the glass screen which made that awful high pitched sound when you turned it on
Ahh... The good ol' CRT.
Those are CRT TV which was refer as Cathode Ray Tube TV due that TV having Huge Tube Glass having Inside a lot of cathode and electron inside with magnets that moves those electron leff and right so rapidly making the image. Unless you use the camera and record it and slow it down, it will be unpercievable to the human eyes.