ABSTRACT
Modern high-denition at-screen television displays offer a realism simply unthinkable just 10 years ago. Many such televisions now even offer the possibility of displaying high-quality three-dimensional (3D) images when used in conjunction with special glasses. From a certain perspective, today’s television technology might well be regarded as falling within the category of “ultra-realistic imaging”. However, if one examines the intrinsic information content of today’s high-denition televisions, it is in fact far inferior to that of interferometric displays such as holograms or Lippmann photographs.
