The Revolution of Entertainment

Picture this: You’re stuck on the freeway when all of a sudden, 15 car lengths ahead of you, a bus explodes in a massive fire ball, showering all the surrounding cars with parts. You see a body part come flying through the air towards you and land on the car beside you. Imagine turning to look at the car beside you just after this happened, only to see your living room wall. What you just saw happen, didn’t happen in real life. It was a special effects scene. Graphics that look so real you in turn react as if they were. This is all made possible by High Definition Televisions.

HDTV, more formally known as High Definition Television, has revolutionized the world of movie and entertainment over the last 15 years. Everyone who’s old enough to buy a lottery ticket remembers the grainy, unrealistic graphics that were in the big budget films of their time. Now, that’s not to knock the olden days of entertainment – they were very well done for their time. Nowadays, you can watch an explosion and see the burning flames as if you were to light a candle right in front of you. See a thunderstorm and watch as each individual raindrop hits the pavement as the camera pans to the dead body that CSI is investigating.

HDTV has forever changed the way we view movies and television. As movies and shows get more realistic, the graphics have to keep up with the market, and so far, we’ve been blown away.