Reality tv shows is a genre of television programming which presents unscripted dramatic situations and documents actual events. It covers a wide range of programming formats, from game or quiz shows to surveillance productions. They portray a modified and highly influenced form of reality. Who can make more money in the shortest time? Who can overcome the fear of height? Who can swim faster or can lose more weight? Who can gorge a bucket full of disgusting insects?
There are many of such productions on television generating hefty revenues for the networks. This new genre is cost effective and popular, the two features Entertainment corporations like best. People do anything for money specially if it is on television. There is no limit of what the show producers can make people do. What motivates people is insatiable greed. Millions sign up to enter the competitions, and a few lucky ones get in and a handful of participants become rich and famous. That is a win-win proposition for both parties.
Since there are so many popular reality shows, the producers relentlessly look for new ideas. They travel around the world for inspirations and crave for ingenious ideas.
To me it doesn’t matter what the idea is as long as I can get millions of people to watch it. The competition is tough, so It must be innovative to glue millions to their TV sets on prime time.
One early morning on my way to work, I happened to notice a homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk, a scene I’d witnessed thousands of times but this one inspired me. Why not reverse the course of all reality shows. Why not swim against the flow and instead of promoting greed, encourage compassion and bring the humanity in people for a change. I wondered, a reality show that promotes generosity and selflessness instead of greed and voracity. A concept like could draw millions of viewers and secure our network’s position as the leader in the industry.
Imagine that you have two copies of a movie and two television sets. One copy is on Blu-ray and you pair that with a high-definition television — an HDTV. The other copy is on standard DVD, which you’ll watch on a standard-definition television. You synchronize both videos and watch the results.
The difference in image quality between the two sets should be obvious. The HDTV’s picture should look crisper and have colors far more vibrant than the standard counterpart. We’ve reached the peak of video quality — or have we?
When we talk about HDTVs, we’re really talking about image resolution. The picture on a television set is composed of millions of tiny dots of light called pixels. Standard-definition televisions have a resolution of 480. That means approximately 480 horizontal lines from the top of the screen to the bottom generate the images you see.
High-definition televisions pack more lines of pixels to create images. On the low end of the high-definition standard in the United States you have approximately 720 lines of pixels. On the high end, you have approximately 1,080 lines of pixels. Manufacturers are slowly phasing out the 720-line models in favor of the 1,080-line ones.
Using more pixels to create an image results in a smoother picture. Imagine you’re given a stack of green and brown squares of paper. You’re told you have to build a picture of a tree using the squares exactly as they are. If the squares of paper are large, your tree is going to look blocky with lots of jagged edges. But if you have smaller squares of paper, the tree will look smoother and more natural.
That’s what high-definition television does. It’s not just the number of pixels in the image — it’s the size of each individual pixel. As you pack more pixels into a screen, you have to make the pixels themselves smaller. In turn, the television will produce smoother images.
But is 1080 the best resolution possible? Could you buy a television set that packed even more pixels together? Would it make a difference? And would you be able to find programming that conformed to the higher resolution? Let’s find out.
