What is happening with PBS Hawaii and Digital TV?
Congressional legislation has mandated that all broadcasters transition from traditional analog TV to a new type of broadcasting technology known as Digital Television or DTV. By February 17, 2009, all broadcast stations will be required to convert to digital broadcasting and will no longer be allowed to broadcast an analog signal. To take full advantage of this mandated transition, PBS Hawaii will be replacing analog technology that has been in use for more than half a century with digital technology. Analog broadcasting will continue until the end of the transition period, which currently is set for February 19, 2009. PBS Hawaii will continue to broadcast both analog and digital signals until then. As a result of this mandated conversion, all viewers will need to make changes in some or all of the television equipment they currently use to receive TV programming. In 2005, PBS Hawaii began operating a state-of-the-art, all digital, “high definition capable” master control system. This
