And here I am watching this on a device I can fit in my hand, capable of playing back 4k recordings. And it is supposed to be a 'phone'. Insane for 27 years of development.
I mean, that estimation was pretty drastic anyway. Digital equipment was used heavily throughout the 1990's and almost exclusively in the 2000's for production.
@@richardb6216 They sold to many transmission licenses and had to divide the bandwidth in to such small parcels for all the channels that the highly compressed result actually sounds worse than a decent FM signal.
It was taken off because by the time a story was researched and brought to air it was old news, especially with online publishing however you have a very good point as news aggregation is in its infancy and having a programme that explained things outside of your area of expertese is a very worthwhile thing.
Just popped in from 2356 & i just don't get this qwer-ty-thing at all,with the 'plants' & 'EH's' (enhancements) allowing our now SUPER obese bodies deal with the health thing & as we ALL stay put & surf (ha ha). This is being generated by my cerebral cortex (not physically). Oh & the SUPREME BEING (God rest his soul) gets in again ! (happy trails !).
Consumer electronics moves at break neck speed but professional tech moves sloooow! In 2018 TV stations still broadcast from tape cassettes. It takes a generation to move things forward in an industry. I'm a sound engineer and even brand new state of the art gear still uses mic inputs that are decades old and everything is still an analogue signal. Some stuff is new such as thunderbolt. But you won't find HDMI anywhere on pro equipment.
i miss tomorrow's world always thought they should start a new series showing modern day inventions. i used to love watching and keeping up with latest innovations etc.
It's slightly amusing, and a little sad, that they couldn't predict their own tremendous redundancy.... I can't shake the feeling that our evolutionary successor/s will be saying the exact same thing about us - in not too long, at all.
I was 16 in that March 27th, was on dialysis by that June, already had the catheter fitted to my perineum for C.A.P.D. when this was aired. I had my first kidney transplant on Sunday March 12th 1995, my second was Tuesday March 27th 2001 (my 24th B'day), my third was just last March Monday 12th just after midnight of Sunday March 11th. March features a lot in my life lol, My mum's Birthday, my dads, my brothers, mine etc b'days all March. That's why I kept typing, sorry 😎
20:50 ok but who the actual fuck liked pan and scan more than letterboxing? Like who thought “oh hey, I’m cool with losing a good chunk of the image, it’s not like anything important will ever be there”
We laugh, I mean I laugh at these old shows and I was there using these and many many years before as well way back to the early 70s, but actually if we did a tomorrows world today showing I do not know, latest phones, pcs, tvs even, in 30 years those of you lucky enough to still be here and in a stable frame of mind lol you will laugh just the same as we do at this
We are still waiting for digital radio to be as good as this cos it loses signal constantly driving round and you get nothing. Maybe by 2040 it will work
Wow, the prediction of full transition to digital radio was more or less correct, for a change. The government had recently stated that all FM would be switched off in 2020 (admittedly that has only just been revised)
Cant believe hd is this old. had no idea. It took about 17 years after this to get hd broadcasts in the uk. 29 years later, you still have to pay extra in the uk to watch hdtv cable or satelite channels and theres not many channels compared to sdtv. suprising we still have sdtv
20:23 fascinating to see the start of widescreen TV and mentions of HD and digital. If this is 93 it must have been late 90's for digital and widescreen? 6 years later? HD broadcasts I'll have to Wikipedia! Feels like ruddy yesterday 1993 :-0
on 26:57 the fading out mil seconds with the white noice background. I used to like that and i used to get some what excited to see the tv station went off air for a few seconds. This is as close as it gets. However this is just video. Sounds like someone was replaying the same sequences over and over from 26:57 till the final of this video.. Usually happens with vhs tapes. When you keep watch the very same replay part of the video.. from digital tv you wont hear such eror sounds like that. But you might see bad pixels. And dvd recording machines wont do that to any dvd disc other then frozen image if there is error on the dvd itself.
Funny how digital radio was such a futuristic thing and now I disable it in favor of the old FM stereo. Digital just doesn't work well up into the mountains or far from the station.
Nice video, thanks for uploading. Nice reporter, nice looks. 12:26 She is talking about mpeg/MP3/atrac. 14:33 "The experts say we can go fully digital by 2020". The fun fact it is now end of 2019 (26 years later, almost 27) and yeah there is digital radio (DAB) however the quality isn't that great because of missuse of standards, compression and quality of reception. Nowadays the downside of digital is that when there is an error in the 'stream' (by poor reception for example) you can hear artifacts and random bleeps instead of some noise (at FM) and still can identify what the broadcast is about. Mostly FM is better (because of improvements during years after this video) to listen to than current digital version. Think that FM is a keeper because it is more reliable than current digital version.
@@mirek190 When it works flawlessly you are right but when there is an error or weak signal you will hear nothing or bleeps or parts. Same with DVB-T. With RF and a weak signal you can hear something instead of nothing. In case of a war situation or other emergency/alarming situation I prefer FM above DAB.
Fully digital radio by 2020. Also, what became of the service is sad in a lot of ways as operators went for quantity over quality. Although, DAB+ is a welcome improvement
Wow. Analogue TV was completely switched off 5 years ago, never mind radio. Everything is digital now. Seems TW underestimated progress by about a decade.
Brian McHugh Analogue radio on AM FM LW etc is still the most consumed method of radio in the UK.... just saying. Probably because our DAB standard is comparatively crap and most broadcasters go for low bitrate and more channels instead of the higher quality we were promised.
Me in 1993: “You’re wasting your money on Apple, Amazon and Microsoft .... Those companies will never take off.!! I’m putting all of my money in Iomega stock. Those Zip disks are the future... 120 Megabytes on ONE removable cartridge? Unbelievable!! The whole world is gonna buy these things like crazy!! Sign me up!” Ughhh... ☹️
I first saw HD at some tradeshow in the early 90's and was blown away by it. While I wanted it to catch on, it seemed at the time it would never catch on in my lifetime.
nah i think VR needs to be in everyones living rooms in about 20 years.... with suitable VR content. like TV shows and stuff.... imagine watching westworld season 10 in VR :)
It took a very long time before high definition television really caught on. They would've been very unhappy in 1993 if they knew that it would take about 15 years before HD television sets became common, and broadcasts and HD media formats somewhat widely available (although in 2008 most people still watched SD broadcasts).
As far as digital TV and radio are concerned, I'd rather put up with the hissing, crackling and ghosting of analogue than the screeches, clicks, underwater like sound quality and complete loss of sound and picture every few seconds that one gets with digital.
I seems like a lot of the Tomorrow's World predictions of the technology of the future did not anticipate something like the smart phone taking over and fulfilling most of these devices niche applications.
Decent programmes? These programmes plss me off if anything because the glorious future we were promised in the 90s turned out to be a steaming piece of shlt
Three screens how could you monitor that screen w-n ascreen.that city internet mockup demo was good.now it's on a smartphones and you can search all they talked about.
Looking at those widescreen tv's makes me laugh at how much tv technology has gone forward since 1993. Flatscreen tv's with internet in 2017 ...undreamable way back then!
