What are the advantages and future of digital TV?
Digital TV is a totally separate broadcast signal that encodes television signals as digital data streams. Consequently, through compression technology, there is much greater capacity with which to send information. The digital TV receiver in a store or home decompresses the broadcast data and translates it back into viewable TV signals. The digital signal greatly improves reception, eliminating ghosting” and “fade”. The extra bandwidth that DTV generates can be used in a variety of ways. Most importantly, it allows television stations to broadcast a HDTV (High Definition Television) signal which has much higher resolution and a wider aspect ratio (16:9) than current analog television. Also, the new digital signal can be used for other purposes such as alternate channels of programming, digital data services, and electronic program guides (EPGs). The DTV signal can also support new higher quality audio standards such as Dolby Digital (surround sound). Television stations, like KSTP-TV,
