| Though it's not a novelty any more, Digital television will | | | | transmission can be compressed in order to take up |
| soon seem like one once it becomes the only | | | | less bandwidth. This implies that more number of |
| transmission format from February 2009. How does | | | | channels can be transmitted over the same cable or |
| the whole concept of Digital television work and how | | | | over the air frequency. This is beneficial for the cable |
| and why is it superior to the normal methods of | | | | operators who wish to increase the number of |
| transmission? Lets try and understand why. | | | | channels, as they can now do so without having to |
| Digital transmission is superior because it converts | | | | replace any cable. HDTV has a bandwidth hogging |
| images and sounds into digital computer data and | | | | nature, and hence digital TV transmission is a better |
| transmits them. Once the digital data is received by the | | | | way of transmitting HDTV regardless of the medium |
| receiver attached to your television, it is then quickly | | | | of transmission used. |
| reassembled into the original picture and sound and | | | | Digital TV is an all or none deal, implying that either you |
| viewed by the viewer. Though this may seem like a | | | | experience top quality television viewing with clear |
| longer procedure of transmitting television data, it | | | | picture quality or else you view nothing. In comparison |
| actually is more advantageous than the older analog | | | | the old, analog transmission method still provided the |
| method as it provides you with a better picture and | | | | picture even if the quality degraded at times. The |
| sound quality. The picture is not grainy or disturbed and | | | | picture might have gone grainy and fuzzy yet it was |
| the transmission is very clear. This is because the | | | | still viewable, however in digital TV it will either be |
| digital tuner attached to the receiver removes any | | | | viewed or nothing can be seen on the screen at all. |
| interface from the signals before converting them | | | | There is another inconvenience with this new |
| back to the original images and sounds. | | | | technology. The problem being that the television sets |
| This ability to clean the interface from the signals | | | | do not have the facility to tune to these new digital |
| results in superior quality of picture and sound which | | | | waves. This problem can be solved by either buying a |
| ultimately results into superior quality viewing. | | | | new generation television or else buying the digital |
| To add to the quality, the digital television has another | | | | tuner that can be attached to your normal television to |
| advantage of having a user friendly interface where | | | | provide the same effect. |
| the user can view the listings well in advance rather | | | | Digital television no doubt will improve television viewing |
| than having to flip through random channels to find out | | | | many folds by improving quality and increasing the |
| what's on and what's not. | | | | bandwidth available but the final verdict of the people |
| One of the other benefits of digital TV is that the | | | | is still awaited in the matter. |