I haven't seen digital HDTV, but what I have is a tape based system called W-VHS. It's an extrememly high-end system based on Japanese High-Def technology. That means that the outputs are the Y, Y-Pb, and Y-Pr signals. The system is an AmPro projector with RGB inputs, so it even went through a transcoder to convert the signals, plus switching (autopatch), etc as it is part of a complete system. The picture was almost unintelligible from looking out the window of the helo it was filmed from. Another thing I noticed right away was the contrast. You could easily pick out tiny details in the windows of buildings in the foreground, and the sun in the background was too bright too look directly at for more than a few seconds. I'm not sure how exactly the digital system stacks up to this (that VCR alone is $20k and the tapes are $200), but if it's anywhere near as nice I'm gonna love it (and I don't even watch TV that much). I don't think most people realize the difference between this and the NTSC standard. Unfortunately I won't be able to afford a system like that one unless I save up for a few decades or more.
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I haven't seen digital HDTV, but what I have is a tape based system called W-VHS. It's an extrememly high-end system based on Japanese High-Def technology. That means that the outputs are the Y, Y-Pb, and Y-Pr signals. The system is an AmPro projector with RGB inputs, so it even went through a transcoder to convert the signals, plus switching (autopatch), etc as it is part of a complete system. The picture was almost unintelligible from looking out the window of the helo it was filmed from. Another thing I noticed right away was the contrast. You could easily pick out tiny details in the windows of buildings in the foreground, and the sun in the background was too bright too look directly at for more than a few seconds. I'm not sure how exactly the digital system stacks up to this (that VCR alone is $20k and the tapes are $200), but if it's anywhere near as nice I'm gonna love it (and I don't even watch TV that much). I don't think most people realize the difference between this and the NTSC standard. Unfortunately I won't be able to afford a system like that one unless I save up for a few decades or more.