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Originally Posted by oldtvman
after living throught the birth of both technologies, I find litte comparison in the two. HDTV was a natural progression from analog. Color television had no predicessor.
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Seems like the opposite to me - color tv was really just 'colored television' and used the same basic system, resolution, transmission etc. HDTV is totally new and non-compatible. Analog to digital may be a natural progression but it is more uphill to get people to switch to it as to color.
I remember getting my bigscreen HDTV about a year and a half ago and I don't know how fantastic color looked at first but I was truly astounded by how good it looked when showing broadcast HDTV. And after watching something in HDTV for a little while, if you immediately look at analog again it almost gives you a headache the quality difference is so stark. That didn't happen between BW and color (still doesn't!)...Frenchy