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, I can not guarantee that all sites are still active.

If you do a "Google" search for "HDTV" you will get about 62,000,000 "hits".  Since neither you nor I have the time to "surf" 62 million sites, this is a list of a few that I have actually visited.

I suspect that most of the remaining 62 million sites are people wanting to separate you from your money.

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 other words, 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. And yes, their home built antenna would work for analog channel 6 (but not for HDTV) if you live close enough to my transmitter.

http://www.keohi.com/keohihdtv/hdreception/antenna.html talks about installing antennas. This is someone else's opinion on antenna installation.
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.

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.

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.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://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/PCLT/HDTV
This is a rather long but interesting article written by Howard Gilbert of Yale, concerning "Computers, Video Files, and HDTV". I do not know who Howard Gilbert is, but he does write a good article.

And that's about all the time I am willing to devote to "surfing the web" looking for the hundred or so gems among the 62,000,000 items of fodder.

All analog television broadcasting in the USA ended on June 12, 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. 

www.dtv.gov
This site contains information about the digital conversion.  It has lots of useful information.

Richard Kihn
Chief Engineer,
KFDM-TV/KFDM-DT
hdtv@kfdm.com

Last update: February, 2009

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