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 😎
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
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”
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
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)
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
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... ☹️
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!
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.
Wait for the next 20 years
Just imagine what tomorrows world would be showing now if it was still on television! I say the show needs to be brought back
"The experts say that we are going to be fully digital by 2020, that's a long wait"
And yet here we are.
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.
@@TRISTRAMY That’s digital technology for you - basically, it’s all 0s and 1s.🤪
Maybe things will have improved for Clarrie Grundy by 2020?
can't wait for Jurassic Park to come out
I hope they cast Laura Dern in it, she's great!
I watched this back in 93, it was the first time I heard about Jurassic Park. I was stoked, and I wasn't disappointed 👍
Fully digital radio by 2020...that was impressively accurate...God I miss tomorrows world
Interestingly though we still get a better signal with FM for the most part compared to digital at our home in the Peak District in 2022.
Radio isn't fully digital yet, but TV is, so they were nearly right.
You're living in it! 🤣
@@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.
People who know about tomorrows world now are doing things like laying down in front of trucks
they need to bring back tomorrow's world. the way technology is moving now most people can't keep up and it would be nice to have it all explained
Flinty13 hiya. What's that? I've not heard of it before
The rate at which technology moves now, it would literally mean Tomorrow's World.
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.
They should make a yesterdays world show.
Humans R Ants they have! This! 😂😘
Techmoan says hi
@@steveballinger9643 did you mean to blow him a kiss ?
Love that 1993 DAB radio in the Ford Sierra!
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 loved tomorrow's world.. i was 14 when this was on
You're still YOUNG
This episode was shown on my 27th birthday. I think I was out celebrating because I can't remember watching it 🤣
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 😎
@@ianmangham4570 I was -11 when this was on
I was on holiday in Florida when this was first broadcast so it's nice to see it now.
I remember when this Tomorrow's World was Today's World 😢
The bit about the Widescreen telly - it was like she was doing an Alan Partridge impression - lol!
"NASA funding is unpredictable"
Some things never change
11:33 she's climbing that transmitter without any safety line!!! Couldn't do that these days!
13:48 she wasn't wearing a seatbelt in the back of a moving car either. She's a very naughty girl.
That was EXACTLY what I thought too when I saw it... :-) I wouldn't even want to.
Yes totally crazy, couldn't believe it
Was watching survivalist documentaries no idea how I got here.
Here I am watch this on smart phone....... they never see that coming. The old smart phone
🤣yep watching on my 55" 4k TV 😁
I think that's because of a lack of point of reference although, you could fit a TV on a watch - it just cost a months wages at the time.
14:34 We don't really have to wait all that time do we? I can't wait six weeks to go full digital ffs! 😢
Wait go back
@@0tf850 No way, those six weeks were worse than lockdown, and I'm one of the sheltered.
There's more adverts on here than there was in 93 !
Loved Tomorrow's World
You could decide what happens in Parliament ! Perhaps in those days 🙄🏴🐢
20:22 Keanu Reeves has aged a hell of a lot better than I have.
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
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”
Back when the BBC was interested in making decent programs.
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
indeed
memories of the old days
I was born 4 months after this aired lol crazy
I love the jaunty way Judith said "Before long the dinosaurs are reborn and they go on the rampage."
1993! I was getting the living shit knocked out of me by Artillery in Lebanon. Ah happy days
'It's still a few years time' lol
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)
I still like listening to analogue radio on my portable radio.
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
I was 14 and probably watched this in 93
And here we are in the future and everyone’s surrounded by devices and scared/full of hatred/anxious and miserable. Must have missed that episode
HiDef TV? That'll NEVER catch on!
It's a shame NASA engineers/designers ended up making that piece of shit because of poor funding.
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.
Doesn't it kind of feel as if Tomorrow's World died because we stopped looking forward to the future?
I don’t
As if they really skipped over flat screens and DAB radio like that 🤣🤣🤣🤣😀
It must have been fun every week to make this series.
I've kind of forgotten how nasty New York used to be. It sure is a lot cleaner these days. Sure it still smells like piss just not as much piss..😉
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
Theres a clip from 91 showing the HD Tv also
24 years later: Digital radio is a normal thing for almost everyone. And I don't talk about the internet radio
What ? Never heard of it
Love cutting edge early 90s CGI!
Kate Bellingham is foxy .
I had a teenage crush on her
Omg the dreams I had about her !!!
ahh bless, some memories there.
Here’s the thing folks we could have a new Tomorrows World today about future tech and it would equally as amazing when we watch it again in 30 years.
Isn’t it called Click ?
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.
We live in the future, folks.
How do we
@@unicorntomboy9736 Because that program was in the past :)
I like the ford Granada! Sadly they don't really exist in 2024, I used to very occasionally see one last decade but not since 2020!
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
Theres a clip from 1991 showing HD tv and cameras. Its in the invention of touchscreen video
great episode!
10:47 The Archers makes me pull that face too lol
2:16 - THAT episode of The Orville
Yeah, by 93 it needed yo be called "Advertising Todays Tech" or the gadget show or something...
They did that animation before there was even a windows 95 .
Saying it was pre Windows 95 really shows how long ago 1993 is to 2024!!
"You could choose between Howard, Kate, and Carmen... " There's no choice there then.
It’s weird how completely wrong they were but also sort of completely onto it at the same time
The old tv tech tech was painful
No wonder digital radios never took off. They are HUGE
Phil Mittchel looks like Jimmy Sommerville.
Jean-Luc Picard
YES....such a good observation, I missed that
Yeah but I bet Phil Mitchell doesn’t have the same vocal range.
2:18 - great choice of music Panama - Van Halen
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.
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.
LOL no
Digital radio signal is far more better in every way than FM radio.
@@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.
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.
Fully digital by 2020😩
But we are really close
My sister was born on this day!
the guy's sideburns during the mrs. butterworth part lololololol
he had a great New Zealand accent
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
high definition television you say?
that will never catch on.
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.
ElectricJohnny -
How interesting.
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).
7:17 What, oh come on, spoiler alert warning surely !!!!
Thing is TW was broadcast LIVE every week.. Things did go wrong :)
I went to see Jurassic Park in 1993 and got my car and my fm Stereo stolen.. How ironic
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.
True, today this show would be called Next Month's App.
like everything in the uk..we are fecking behind
Buy Apple stock
bitukukuasukgremany3 hahahaaaaaaaaaa
Better yet, also buy Amazon and Microsoft.
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... ☹️
16:12 "It wasn't created on an expensive high tech machine" ... shows an Amiga 3000 that cost $3,379, the equivalent of $6,550 today.
am I the only one who thinks that our progress has slowed somewhat...?
We now completely understand the evolutionary history of the Mosquito.
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.
That promo makes Jurassic Park look like a B movie.
Other carbonated pop drinks are available.
and now we have all that stuff
Are we fully digital then 2 months out of that 2020? Tv is, DAB everywhere but we still have fm and am
Scott Irvine lol
A time when presenters where top class and worked hard for money which was not as much as the obscene talentless oafs earn today
Yeah, its great - I'm watching this instead of working - Uugh!
2018 here
Where can I get the latest version of that "off the shelf software"?
Buy Amazon and Google stock.
high defenition flat tvs at home. no way that willever happen.
Maybe in a decade or so.
and in 2020 we watch tiktok and cat videos :-)
While from the BBC, we have Mrs Brown's boys and Michael McIntyre 😢
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!
I'm still watching a crt 🤣
@@ianmangham4570 We now have transparent displays
@@unicorntomboy9736 Donkeysmell
@@ianmangham4570 what
@@unicorntomboy9736 Who
@14:29 - "next week on tomorrow's world - the seatbelt"
If we still had tomorrow’s world it would feature Elon Musk controlling everything from Mars with Starlink and NeuraLink.
purple blazer jacket and a black t-shirt. Thank goodness that never caught on
Wonder if Howard is Steve Guttenberg
Were they using a commodore Amiga ?
Looking back now, they got so many things wrong. Was a nice show, but I'm just smirking now.
If I only I knew about the sega Saturn
If we keep on going at the rate of tech evolution we will have idk teleportation powers