Digital television is changing the way we think about our viewing in ways that were never practical and in many cases not possible with analog TV. It will literally become yet another new "window" on the world. Digital TV, with its MPEG-2 compression scheme, offers higher quality picture and sound than analog TV (Gerbarg, 1999). Choices will increase with many more channels. Interactive television helps place control of viewing in the hands of viewers instead of broadcasters. Combined with a phone line, digital TV can give everyone access to the Internet in a way with which they feel at ease, opening up new opportunities for education, access to information, shopping and games. Digital television will have both similar and different standards than analog TV. The combination of Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and a widescreen picture will pose competition to the motion picture industry that wasn't possible with analog TV (Casswell, 2000).
In the United States, as opposed to many other countries, a conversion to both digital signals and high-definition pictures is occurring at the same time. Some countries are broadcasting in high-definition pictures but are still using an analog signal. Digital signals, in contrast to analog, are much easier to compress. Compression is required because five times as much information must fit into the same 6MHz bandwidth that analog TV is transmitted in. MPEG-2 compression, the compression method that will be used, can reduce the number of bits transmitted by approximately 55:1 (Collins, 2001). This is made possible because MPEG-2 takes advantage of how the eye perceives color variations and motion. Inside each frame, an MPEG-2 encoder records just enough detail to make it look like nothing is missing. The encoder also compares adjacent frames and only records the sections of the picture that have moved or changed. If only a small section of the picture changes, the MPEG-2 encoder only changes that area and leaves the rest of the picture unchanged.
You will need a set-top box to decode the digital signals and receive digital television. Before digital TV, there was analogue television. ... This digital technology has changed modern television. ... Digital television gives the viewer the choice. ... Digital technology has also changed entertainment television. ...
Brief HistoryThe technology for digital television came on strong around the mid 1990?... s decision to require digital tuners in new television sets. So, obviously there is pressure from the government for digital television to the mainstay. ... A digital television set right now can cost thousands more then a standard analog one. ... Plus digital television probably won?...
(BSkyB Annual Report, 2001) Digital television is broadcasted through different means. ... At present, 35% of television subscribers in the UK have access to digital services. ... (Brech, 2001) Labour has planned to switch off the analogue signal only if 95% of the population has digital television. ... (Tylee, 2001) To be leading broadcaster in digital television. ... Heavy weight television advertising. ...
Before the computer and the internet became a common staple in the American household, people used technology such as television, newspapers, magazines, telephones, and radios (now commonly referred to as "traditional media") to communicate. ... Essentially, Digital Media is about content creation, content management and content distribution across multiple Internet and digitally-enabled platforms such as the PC, television, games console, mobile and other devices, as well as packaged media such as Interactive CD-Rom's or DVD"s. ... In the recent years a number of factors have been spea...
The government had some idea of a desired date for the television industry to complete its analogue switch-off, and stated that switch-off will occur when 70% of the population owns a digital television, which could take place between 2006 and 2010. ... Consumer Confusion:Switching over to digital television is a major problem for several consumers in the UK. ... In fact, the cost of replacing all television sets in the UK with a decoder box or a digital television is approximately £8 billion. And, the price of a digital television set is currently over £1,000. ... These people i...
The government had some idea of a desired date for the television industry to complete its analogue switch-off, and stated that switch-off will occur when 70% of the population owns a digital television, which could take place between 2006 and 2010. ... Consumer Confusion:Switching over to digital television is a major problem for several consumers in the UK. ... In fact, the cost of replacing all television sets in the UK with a decoder box or a digital television is approximately £8 billion. And, the price of a digital television set is currently over £1,000. ... These people i...
This is the sort of thinking that is killing analog television. The effects of the full switchover to digital television broadcasts are likely to be as catastrophic as the Y2K phenomenon proved to be - it's a lot of hoopla over a bang that will likely be less than a fizzle. ... One overall affect, then of the decision to do away with analog television for the United States is that landfills will pick up about 6 million energy hogging televisions and over the course of a few years, electronic sellers will benefit from a boom in the sales of converter boxes and new televisions. Televisi...
Today with the capabilities of digital media, photos can be taken and sent digitally through the internet and so forth. ... Digital Technologies Digital technology has evolved so much the past 50 years or so. ... Digital media is very flexible with the amount of usage it can take. ... This is how digital media has replaced print media. ... Beginning with television stations, to department stores and major corporations. ...
Digital storytelling can be described as telling a story using a multiple of different digital mediums, text, audio, video etc. ... (Harden, 1999) Leading figures in digital storytelling such as Joseph Lambert co-founder and director of the Centre for Digital Storytelling at the University of California at Berkeley, sees digital storytelling as "a balance between an historically grounded, human-centred appreciation of good storytelling skills and a sophisticated grasp of the creative potential of a new set of digital tools (Mullen, 1999)." ... So what are the new dimensions which digital...