Is this really true worldwide? This info was shared by our professors...What would be the advantages and disadvantages of in micro- and macro-sense? hmm...Is this a part of globalization? ...a process being headed by some "groups/nations" w/ 3rd world countries being left out or being pulled in with unnecessary risks in its economy...

 

You're going to have a hard time tuning in CBS come February 2009. I guess you missed news about HDTV.

Your post really makes no sense.

 

guess I'm not that updated...just wondering if it's worth talking about such things...

 

Talk about the 2009 t.v. change.

 

I haven't heard about any other changes in AM and FM, I suspect that would cause way too much heartburn for the powers that be.

Analog TV sets in the US will be obsolete for the airwaves in 3 months, as mandated by Congress of the USA. It all depends on where you live, Europe will be going through something similar from what I understand, on a different timetable.

 

The VHF TV frequencies are being removed from TV usage (HDTV takes way more bandwidth than standard TV) and will be auctioned off for other commercial usage.

Have some bucks handy and get your own personal frequency allocation.

 

The VHF TV frequencies are being removed from TV usage (HDTV takes way more bandwidth than standard TV) and will be auctioned off for other commercial usage.

Have some bucks handy and get your own personal frequency allocation.

That doesn't make sense. How could the requirement for more bandwidth lead to freeing up the UHF (you said VHF) channels for other uses? My understanding is that, due to digital compression, HDTV requires less bandwidth than standard analog TV.

 

Look at the sheer quantity of information involved. It probably isn't 24 bits per pixel, but much less than that wouldn't be HD.

Ok, I looked at Wikipedia, which says the DTV compression does require less bandwidth. I don't watch, so I'm not real current with the transmission methodology.

 

I read or heard that A.D.T. was being sued for not disclosing how the
2009 change would effect the alarms at change over time.Some one
claimed that A.D.T. was going to allow people to wake up in 2009
and have a alarm system that would not work, any one understand
the freq.involved and the problem related to alarms.

 

Hello,

Holland already switched to digital television broadcast at the beginning of this year.
All analog Tv recievers are useless now. You need a "digitenne" reciever for recieving the signal (this is a DVB-T reciever).

Greetings,
Bertus

 

Are there any similarities in regard to NTSC LUMINANCE/CHROMA WAVE FORM AT THE RECEIVING END. OR would the color bust,horizonal sync,blanking level,equalizing pulses,ect. be in code pulses of some pulse width,space width, amplitude level. This digital stuff is new in my brains!

 

Worse, it will be a MPEG standard I believe. Basically the TVs are going to be modified computers.

 

It is an 81 year old technology. I was surprised to see that the signal is compressed enough to use less bandwidth. I have no idea of the broadcast resolution, though, both in pixels and in bits per color.

If it were anything like my 16:9 monitor, that is 1,296,000 pixels (14,400 x 900). At 24 bit color, that is 31,104,000 bits per frame. At 60 frames/sec, that is 1.866 X 10^10 BPS. That would be a tad more than the 6 MHz bandwidth current tv uses.