What’s “digital” got to do with it?
The new revolution in home entertainment revolves around digital television – the transforming of TV pictures and sound into the same type of language that’s used by computers. Once video content has been “digitized,” you can do more things with it. For instance, cable companies can now slim down the size of TV signals so they can fit more of them through their delivery networks. That’s one reason why Digital Cable offers so many more channels than traditional cable service. Also, encoding pictures and sounds in digital language allows other devices to reproduce those same pictures and sounds perfectly – resulting in better picture and sound quality.
