Last time I checked this was a fairly busy and popular site. Shouldn't there not be typos? Perhaps I am asking too much. And while I'm on the subject would it really be that hard to get a spell check built into/. ?
The problem with tv and tv standards is that a lot of people don't know what the differences are. This article is about broadcast standards, which means what the Networks, ie ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, WB, etc, broadcast over the air which people can then pick up with an antennae. The government wants to change the standard from analog to digital, which means that anyone who wants to get free over the air tv would need a digital decoder to decode the over the air mpeg stream.
Now to the HDTV vs DTV issue. This change has nothing to do with HDTV. HDTV does not have to be digital, I believe some stations are broadcasting analog HDTV right now. HDTV is a tv standard that has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 or 1280 x 720, while standard definition television, which is what the majority of people watch is 720 x 480 or 640 x 480. HD refers to resolution not digital or analog.
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Last time I checked this was a fairly busy and popular site. Shouldn't there not be typos? Perhaps I am asking too much. And while I'm on the subject would it really be that hard to get a spell check built into /. ?
The problem with tv and tv standards is that a lot of people don't know what the differences are. This article is about broadcast standards, which means what the Networks, ie ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, WB, etc, broadcast over the air which people can then pick up with an antennae. The government wants to change the standard from analog to digital, which means that anyone who wants to get free over the air tv would need a digital decoder to decode the over the air mpeg stream.
Now to the HDTV vs DTV issue. This change has nothing to do with HDTV. HDTV does not have to be digital, I believe some stations are broadcasting analog HDTV right now. HDTV is a tv standard that has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 or 1280 x 720, while standard definition television, which is what the majority of people watch is 720 x 480 or 640 x 480. HD refers to resolution not digital or analog.