Monday, February 28, 2011

Blog Assignment #5


Digital television has been adopted even faster than color television was years ago. High resolution TV attracted tons of people, plus the Telecommunications Act of 1996 established the change from analog to digital. This switch provided easier access to TV by viewers. However, the ones that wanted to keep their analog TV had to get a converter box.

The move to digital TV brought open skies, HBO, WTBS, MTV and deregulation. DTV enabled broadcasters to no longer be limited to a single station, in the digital world; many broadcasters have launched three or four separate digital channels.

This transition made valuable spectrum available that is been reassigned to firefighters, police officers and other emergency personnel. This high-quality TV spectrum is efficient and will ensure first responders can better communicate during emergencies.

Watching a clearer picture on TV matters because this goes along with innovation. Engineers were motivated because of this change and created more channel capacity, better shows, more variety and other devices. DTV enabled creatives to use new techniques and put their creativity on display.

After this switch, not only TV changed to higher resolution, cameras, cell phones and other types of media have more pixels now.

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