A Look At New Digital TV Conversion Technology
The United States is set to switch completely to digital over the air TV broadcasts as of February 17, 2009. When this happens, the analog signals that deliver most of the over the air TV content will cease. There will be a number of ramifications of this including the fact that a lot more electromagnetic bandwidth will be available for things like emergency services communications and municipal WiFi networks. These are definitely good things, but the transition won't be completely positive. The one major black mark making the transition to all digital TV signals is that the millions of analog TV sets- that lack digital tuners- will suddenly be unable to receive and display TV signals.
The United States is set to switch completely to digital over the air TV broadcasts as of February 17, 2009. When this happens, the analog signals that deliver most of the over the air TV content will cease. There will be a number of ramifications of this including the fact that a lot more electromagnetic bandwidth will be available for things like emergency services communications and municipal WiFi networks. These are definitely good things, but the transition won't be completely positive. The one major black mark making the transition to all digital TV signals is that the millions of analog TV sets- that lack digital tuners- will suddenly be unable to receive and display TV signals.
There are several remedies for this situation including the options of buying a new digital TV, subscribing to a satellite or cable TV provider (which will provide the necessary hardware to allow an analog only TV set to continue to function), but the most cost effective solution to this problem will be to buy a digital TV adapter box. Digital TV adapter boxes will receive the digital TV signals and then convert them to analog signals that the older TV sets can understand. This is clearly the option of choice for the federal government because of the fact that it will...
