Monday, December 26, 2011

How The Advent Of HDMI Adaptors Changed The Television

By Billaha Preston


We would, for the most part, be at a severe loss without our sense of sight. While it is not entirely a necessity for survival, the amount of information we gather thorough our vision overwhelms all the other senses combined. It was obvious then, that once a device first overcame the hurdle of how to transmit images from one place to another, it was destined to become a global desire. The invention of the television and accessories connect via HDMI adaptors met that expectation head on.

The invention of the television and its pervasive spread across the world is a testament to the power of visual imagery on man. The concept of television was to attach as an offshoot of our need to communicate the ability to transmit information to a wide, disparately located audience simultaneously. Coming as id did on the heels of World War II; it also had the advantage of feeding a now slightly more paranoid world that realized that what happens in other parts of the world can have a decidedly pointed effect on the local community.

Now a hungry global market found itself with a new device with which it could keep itself informed of global events every day. That it also provided a medium for whole family entertainment made it all the more alluring. It took a remarkably small amount of time to spread across the world, one of the most ubiquitous electronic devices ever produced.

At first the technology had exceeded programming capability, with early TV basically consisting of televised radio shows, community endeavors and sporting events. This was enough to feed the desires of the early audience, but the business world knew it had found a gold mine and advertising soon provided the much needed capital to develop an ever increasing volume of material for production and screening.

The next tremendous leap forward came with the invention of accessories which would allow the consumer the ability to selectively record and play back the television programming, freeing them form both the programmers timing for shows and the limitations of watching only one show when another desired feature was simultaneously broadcast. These accessories had to be connected to the television, and that led to the drive for ever better means to do so.

High Definition Multimedia Interface is the ultimate in connectivity, allowing for the interconnection of virtually any and all uncompressed video and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data. This makes for a highly compact extremely efficient transmission of High definition broadcasts with no loss of image quality.

They accomplished the feat with the development of HDMI Adaptors, which allowed for the very high quality transmission of data without attenuation or static. Complicating the invention was a need to still support older and diverse data platforms. The idea of having to buy all new devices every time something changed smacked of planned obsolescence, never a good business strategy if it is found out.




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