The Future of Television and HDTV

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March 20th, 2009

Jim Carey's character believed he lived within it in 1996's dark comedy The Cable Guy, and really did live within it in 1998's The Truman Show.

Peter Finch as Howard "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" Beale was driven to the brink of madness by it, and ultimately sacrificed for it in 1976's Oscar-winning Network.

It has been brilliant, heartbreaking, amusing, informative, and just plain sordid (Jerry Springer, anyone?). And it is inarguably the most powerful medium in modern history.

But as much as television programming has reflected the attitudes, opinions and – Sometimes – the lowest common denominators of our society, the technology behind it has consistently been groundbreaking.

Though many think of the 1950s as the decade TV began, the very first television technology was ...

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