
A
Guide
to
Digital
TV
•
What
is
Digital Television?
Digital television
(DTV)
is
anew
way
of
transmitting high quality video and audio to your
TV
set.
Using
DTV,
broadcasters can transmit high definition
TV
(HDTV)
images, Dolby digital surround
audio, and new services
such
as
multicasting (transmitting more than one program
on
the
same
TV
channel) and datacasting. Several
of
these
services can be combined into asingle digital
broadcast.
Digital
Television
Services
•Digital Picture
Quality
DTV
programs are transmitted
in
two different formats.
The
first
is
Standard Definition Television
(SDTV)
and
the
second
is
High Definition Television
(HDTV).
•SDTV program formats include 480-line interlaced (480i) and 480-line progressive (480p) video.
480i
programs are essentially adigital version
of
our current analog
TV
programs, while
the
480p
format offers improved image detail over
480i.
Some
480p
programs are broadcast
in
widescreen
and are comparable
to
progressive-scan
DVD
movies
in
image quality.
•HDTV program formats include 1080-line interlaced
(1
080i) and 720-line progressive (720p).
Both
HDTV
formats are always broadcast
in
widescreen, and offer
much
higher picture quality than
SDTV.
•Dolby Surround Sound
With
DTV,
you can listen
to
avariety
of
Dolby digital audio formats from Dolby Surround
2.0
to
Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, using your home audio
system.
Many
HDTV
programs are now
broadcast with
DD
5. 1soundtracks.
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