What is digital television? Why the switch?
Digital Television (DTV) is an innovative broadcast technology that will transform your television viewing experience. It will provide movie quality pictures and sound, more channels and over-the-air high definition television (HDTV) for consumers with HD sets. Digital technology allows UNC-TV to broadcast programs in much higher quality and clarity than with analog television.
Who will be affected? What are the benefits and costs? And, how can I make the switch – were the primary topics addressed. “People being creatures of habit, it’s possible they may wait to the last minute (to make the transition),” said Mare Prosso, the adult services librarian at the Mexico-Audrain County Library. “This program, we felt, would be a good public service for Audrain residents, who may still have questions or doubts.” Digital television – referred to as DTV – is a new type of broadcasting television signal that requires less bandwidth (capacity) to broadcast, and enables TV stations to provide clearer pictures and better sound quality. Why switch? Namely, because Congress passed legislation – the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 – requiring free local broadcast stations to turn off their analog channels by Feb. 17, and continue broadcasting exclusively in the digital format.
Digital Television (DTV) is an innovative broadcast technology that will transform your television viewing experience. It will provide movie quality pictures and sound, more channels and over-the-air high definition television (HDTV) for consumers with HD sets. Digital technology allows KUED to broadcast programs in much higher quality and clarity than with analog television. DTV is a more efficient way to broadcast television. The transition will free up the airwaves so that the federal government can auction them off to companies that provide new wireless services and turn some over to fire and police departments for emergency communication. In 1996, the FCC laid out plans for a new era of broadcasting – digital television. And under legislation passed by Congress – the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 – over the air broadcast stations are required to abandon their analog transmitters on February 17, 2009 and from then on broadcast only in a digital format.
