DTV (Digital Television)DTV (Digital Television) is an advanced broadcasting technology that will transform your television viewing experience. Digital Television enables broadcasters to offer television with better picture and sound quality. It can also offer multiple programming choices, called multicasting, and interactive capabilities. Definition: Digital Television is a technology that uses digital communication (1s and 0s) instead of analog waves to transmit audio and video data to a television screen or monitor. Digital transmission requires less bandwidth than analog transmissions because digital data can be compressed. Compression makes it possible to deliver the increased amount of data required for High Definition TV (HDTV). The primary advantage of Digital Television is that Digital television provides higher-quality images, higher-fidelity sound, and more programming choices than analog television. HDTV is so much more efficient than analog TV that United States television stations have been ordered to switch from analog to digital broadcasting. After February 17, 2009, United States TV stations will cease broadcasting on their current analog channels, and the spectrum they have used for analog broadcasting will be reclaimed and put to other uses. As of March 1, 2007, all new TVs have been required to include digital tuners and manufacturers have been prohibited from importing or shipping any device containing an analog tuner, unless it also contains a digital tuner. Given these recent developments, Satellite Digital TV, such as DIRECTV, has becoming increasingly popular as it offers more digital programming than digital cable networks. |