| Thursday, May 11, 2006 |
| HD Technology Trends |
HD Technology Trends
New advances will push HD images into the corporate world.
Sony PCS-HG90
With more than 20 million HDTV screens sold to the domestic home market by end of 2005, most of us have experienced the advantages of high-definition television. But in the corporate enterprise communications arena, HD has been a hard sell until recently. After all, large standard-definition screens have been commonplace for so long in corporate boardrooms, training centers, digital signage installations, and even lobby displays that we have all become accustomed to them. Presentations needing really fine detail have usually been shown on computer-generated VGA screens (at least since IBM introduced the Video Graphics Array resolution standard in 1987).
Now that SXGA resolutions of 1280×1024 and higher are readily available on even modestly priced laptops, most designers and technicians already work with data-dense screen displays. More importantly, since standard-definition video infrastructure already exists, why should a corporation make the upgrade? The broadcast networks were forced to take the plunge into digital transmission by FCC mandate, but until recently corporations had been facing massive capital outlays if they wanted to catch up. 
With recent developments in codecs, disk and hard drive storage, and digital signage systems, however, all that is changing. This Technology Trends article looks at some of the new technologies that will soon enable HD to spread its gloriously dense images and crystal-clear audio throughout corporate America, educational institutions, houses of worship, and anywhere people need to see what only high-definition pictures — and their associated multichannel digital audio — can convey. |
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