The Definition of High Definition
November 11th, 2003 I am happy to announce that the HDTV Gallery is BACK ONLINE after nearly a year's hiatus. It's hard to believe the time slipped away from me so quickly. The previous website was a bear to update which is why I so quickly fell behind. I have rewritten the Gallery entirely in PHP (contact me for more info about this script). I have not plugged in the Captions for each image yet, and many images do not have a "Large" size. Enjoy the new gallery and please e-mail me if you find any broken links/images or wish to submit new examples!
This website started out as an evangelism website about Fox's lackluster presentation of the Super Bowl, which was hyped up with phrases like "Fox Digital Widescreen" and "Fox High Resolution" which confused many into believing it would be anything resembling High Definition. In response, I combed the AVS HDTV Programming Forum for any example snapshots of true High Definition. I found a few images of CBS football, plus several movie snapshots. Well, build it and they will come! 95% of the pictures I have now have been submitted by viewers with AccessDTV, HiPix, or Hauppage WinTV-HD cards.
I have done color calibration on some of these images when necessary but have not used any sharpness filters or anything like that. The calibration has almost always been fixing the gamma so that HDTV pictures are the right brightness on your computer monitor. In the case of October Sky, the pictures I got were incredibly blue. I have centered it back to a more normal look, but wonder if the presentation was also blue?


Update History

2004.01.12
In The Zone -- Britney Spears (+2)
Oscars 2003 (+4)
Grammys 2003 (+6)
ESPN Logo (+1)
Carnivale (+4)
KING Seattle News (+1)
KOMO Seattle News (+1)
Law & Order Special Victims Unit (+3)
Tonight Show -- Britney Spears.jpg (+1)
Enterprise (+2)

2003.11.12
SuperBowl 2003 (+2)
The Guardian (+3)
Robbery Homocide Division (+1)
JAG (+1)
Wizards vs. Bulldogs (+4)
ESPN HD Commercial (+2)
The Fifth Element (+7)
Bikini Destinations (+1)
Anna Kournikova (+1)
Coupling (+1)
Law & Order (+3)
Tonight Show (various)
Rick Steve's Europe (+4)
Azaleas (+4)
Enterprise (+3)
Everwood (+3)
Smallville (+5)
Local Programs (+11)
Thanksgiving 2002 (+19)
Local Programs (+3)
We've moved to a PHP-driven HDTV Gallery!!

2003.02.25
Reduced gallery to a selection of ~40 of the best images.

2003.02.25
Hogan's Heroes (+2)

2002.07.25
Alien Insect (+3)
2002 World Cup (+4)
Apocalypse Now Redux (+2)

2002.06.04
HDNet Logo (+1)
Bikini Destinations (+1)
Shrek (+3)
Final Fantasy (+2)
The Gift (+1)

2002.05.26
centralXpress (+1)
Nutcracker (+1)
UNC Football (+1)
Space Shuttle Discovery: John Glenn Launch (+1)
Kurosawa (+1)
Space Shuttle Endeavor (+1)
New York skyline (+1)
The Perfect Storm (+2)
The Kentucky Derby (+2)
Dharma & Greg (+1)

2002.05.01
Peter Arnett (+4)
Major League Baseball (+1)
Hockey (+1)
Armageddon (+2)
Living with the Dead pt 1(+1)
Crossing Jordan (+1)
Grease 2 (+2)
Kurosawa (+2)
PBS Logo (+1)

2002.04.15
WRAL News (+2)
WRAL Sports (+1)
WRAL Documentary (+4)
Improved navigation at top to take up less space and added colors.

2002.04.14
The Masters (+2)

The Inspectors (+1)

The Sopranos (+1)

Corrected the labeling on 2 Smart Travels shots to Amsterdam.


2002.04.10
Alias (+5)
Dharma & Greg (+1)
Drew Carey (+2)
October Sky (+2)
Spin City (+1)
CSI (+3)
Everybody Loves Raymond (+1)
Judging Amy (+2)
The District (+3)
Smart Travels (+2)

2002.04.07
NCAA Final Four (+2)
Mavs vs. Spurs (+1)
Flight of the Intruder (+4)

2002.03.30
Tonight Show (Cirque du Soleil) (+2)

2002.03.29
Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones Trailer (+6)
24 logo (+1)

2002.03.22
NCAA Basketball (+1)
The Tonight Show bunny (+1)

2002.03.13
Fox Sports Net: Hockey (+1)

2002.03.11
6th Day (+2)

2002.03.09
Smart Travels: Paris (+1)

2002.03.07
The Tonight Show -- Meg ryan, Alligator (+2)

2002.03.05
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (+1)

2002.02.28
24 (+2)

2002.02.21
Judging Amy promo (+1)

2002.02.20
Sleepy Hollow (+1)

2002.02.19
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (+4)
Toy Story 2 (+1)
Sleepy Hollow (+1)

2002.02.18
Raiders of the Lost Ark (+1)
Star Trek: Generations (+3)
2001 US Open (+2)

2002.02.15-2002.02.20
Olympics (+6)