What is the difference between HDTV and Standard TV (NTSC)?
To the point – it’s about the picture and sound. HDTV offers about twice as many “lines” of resolution and better quality, digitally encrypted five-channel sound as well. Our current television system is more than 60 years old. It works entirely in the analog domain, much like an AM radio receiver. Although the ability to add color was included in the 1950’s, the basic standard for transmitting and decoding a television picture has not changed since. HDTV works entirely in the digital domain and so has more in common with your computer than with your current television set. HDTV signals are transmitted or stored in the form of data bits. Because these data bits are stored and transmitted with parity checking and error correcting ability, the picture is always outstanding – as long as you can receive the data stream you will get the best picture without ghosting, noise, sparkles or static. In terms of what you can see, your current television system, NTSC, is capable of a picture approa
