High-definition television (HD or HDTV) describes a television system providing a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies. The term has been used since 1936, in more recent times it refers to the generation following standard-definition television (SDTV), often abbreviated to HDTV or HD-TV.It is the current de facto standard video …

High Definition Multimedia Interface (englisch gesprochen [haɪ ˌdefɪˈnɪʃən ˌmʌltiˈmiːdiə ˈɪntəfeɪs], kurz HDMI) ist eine seit Mitte 2002 entwickelte Schnittstelle für die digitale Bild- und Ton-Übertragung in der Unterhaltungselektronik.Sie vereinheitlicht existierende Verfahren, kann eine höhere Qualität bieten und hat außerdem ein zusammenhängendes Kopierschutzkonzept ().

History. The first electronic scanning format, 405 lines, was the first high definition television system, since the mechanical systems it replaced had far fewer. From 1939, Europe and the US tried 605 and 441 lines until, in 1941, the FCC mandated 525 for the US. In wartime France, René Barthélemy tested higher resolutions, up to 1,042. In late 1949, official French transmissions …

High-definition television of hogedefinitietelevisie (hd-tv) is een televisietechniek met een kwaliteit die als geavanceerder wordt aangemerkt dan de bestaande analoge systemen PAL, NTSC en SECAM.. Als groot voordeel van hd-tv wordt genoemd het grotere aantal beeldlijnen, wat een aanmerkelijk scherper beeld mogelijk maakt, vooral duidelijk te zien op de steeds groter …

Freeview is the United Kingdom's sole digital terrestrial television platform. It is operated by DTV Services Ltd, a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky and transmitter operator Arqiva.It was launched on 30 October 2002, taking over the licence from ITV Digital which collapsed that year. The service provides consumer access via an aerial to the seven DTT …

The Australian Broadcasting Authority's response, titled Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting, recommended that the Australian Government support the early introduction of digital broadcasting as a free-to-air service with the loan of a 7 MHz channel for each broadcaster, in order to enable high-definition television from the outset. The Federation of Australian …

"CivvyStreet" is a spin-off episode of EastEnders broadcast on BBC1 on 26 December 1988. The episode is a flashback to World War II and is set at Christmas 1942. It was watched by 7 million viewers. "Return of Nick Cotton" This episode first aired on 1 October 2000 and was a lead-up to the return of Nick Cotton as a regular character later that year, more than two years after his …

BBC World News is an international English-language pay television network, operated under the BBC Global News Limited division of the BBC, which is a public corporation of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. According to its corporate PR, the combined seven channels of the Global News operations have the largest audience market …

ITU-R Recommendation BT.2020, more commonly known by the abbreviations Rec. 2020 or BT.2020, defines various aspects of ultra-high-definition television (UHDTV) with standard dynamic range (SDR) and wide color gamut (WCG), including picture resolutions, frame rates with progressive scan, bit depths, color primaries, RGB and luma-chroma color representations, …

AVCHD (Advanced Video Coding High Definition) is a file-based format for the digital recording and playback of high-definition video.It is H.264 and Dolby AC-3 packaged into the MPEG transport stream, with a set of constraints designed around the camcorders.. Developed jointly by Sony and Panasonic, the format was introduced in 2006 primarily for use in high definition …