HDTV on the World Wide Web

The following URL's (web addresses) will take you to various sites around the Internet that have something of interest concerning HDTV. Since these are mostly commercial sites, we can not guarantee that all sites are still active.

If you do a "Google" search for "HDTV" you will get about 70,000,000 "hits". Since you most likely do not have the time to "surf" 70 million sites, this is a list of a few.

Antennas:
http://www.kyes.com/antenna/antennadex.html
You will find all sorts of information on antennas. One interesting part is called "bogus antennas" which are those antennas for sale that don't work – in another word: scams.

http://www.tackyliving.com/article.php?id=61
This is an article about antennas including directions on how you can build your own antenna. Take everything there with a large grain of salt, but it is fun.

http://www.keohi.com/keohihdtv/hdreception/antenna.html talks about installing antennas. This is someone else's opinion on antenna installation. Although outdated (2000), the facts are still true.

The "homepage" for this site is http://www.keohi.com/keohihdtv and has various information concerning HDTV.

And of course, www.antennaweb.org is the antenna selector program.

HDTV sets:
http://www.audioholics.com is a general electronics information-clearing house. In addition to comparing HDTV displays, they give their opinion on all sorts of electronic "stuff" to include the questionable value of "specialty" wires.

http://www.cavecreations.com/tv2.cgi allows you to compare the "viewing area" of a 4x3 set compared to a 16x9 set when viewing different picture formats. At this site you will see that:

When viewing an SDTV picture on a 40-inch wide screen set, you have about the same viewing area as if you had a 32-inch 4x3 set.

When viewing HDTV on a wide screen set, the picture is almost twice the size of the 4x3 set (because the 4x3 set is in the "letterbox" mode). Not extremely useful, but interesting.

General Information:

http://www.avsforum.com/
All sorts of information on all sorts of "stuff" including HDTV, computers, DVD's, etc.

http://hdtvinfoport.com/
An HDTV guide for consumers. Much more detail on subjects covered earlier in this discussion is available here.

http://www.hdpictures.com/
More information about HDTV. News, reports, WWW links, and maybe even a better explanation of what HDTV is and what it means to you.

http://www.ce.org/
This is the official site of the Consumer Electronics association.

http://www.wwlp.com/HDTV1.html
A different television station's HDTV page last updated December 2004. There is an 8-minute long video clip of the General Manager explaining HDTV (high speed Internet connection required).

http://www.pbs.org/opb/crashcourse
A very good history and explanation of all things television. From the first mechanical television system all the way to the future of television: HDTV.

http://www.wral.com/news/2179565/detail.html
WRAL is "the pioneer" in HDTV broadcasting. They were the first television station in the country to broadcast in digital.

http://www.wral.com/wralinfo/623644/detail.html is the history of WRAL digital.

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213996,00.html
This "What is" site is similar to "How stuff works". Not as informative, but does have a few WWW links of interest.

http://www.yale.edu/tp/HDTV.htm
This is a rather long but interesting article written by Howard Gilbert of Yale, concerning "Computers, Video Files, and HDTV".

The end of analog:
All analog television broadcasting in the USA is scheduled to end on February 17, 2009. The following sites contain information concerning the transition from analog to digital broadcast television.

http://www.dtvanswers.com/
Hopefully, this site can answer all your questions about the transition from analog to digital broadcast television.

http://www.ntia.doc.gov.
This is the National Telecommunications and Information Administration site which gives information about the DTV converter box coupon program. The dtvanswers.com site has a link to this site.