CBS, one of the four major TV networks in the United States, says it wants to develop digital high definition television with a 1080 line interlaced scanning format. In Japan, many broadcasters also support the interlaced format. Microsoft has had to bend somewhat to such resistance. The Digital TV Team now seems to be thinking about computers which can pick up TV signals provided in an interlaced format. The answer is the difference in the material shown on computers and television.
Computers tend to display text.
Television, however, tends to display natural images. The interlaced format uses as many lines as possible to achieve high resolution in a limited bandwidth. The computer and broadcasting industries are competing to get de facto recognition for their respective scanning formats. However, recently some people have been arguing that there are limits to the usefulness of the Internet as an information medium. Searching for specific items of information on the Internet is a time consuming process.