What is Digital Television?

Question

The website dtv.gov has this message saying "HDTV provides the highest resolution and picture quality of all digital broadcast formats. Combined with digitally enhanced sound technology, HDTV sets new standards for sound and picture quality in television. (Note: HDTV and digital TV are not the same thing -- HDTV is one format of digital TV.)"

So is Digital Television a TV set or just a service?

Answer 1

It's actually an entire system.  The signal must be transmitted digitally and the receivers must be able to decode the digital signal.  This is also true of the old style analog TVs that are currently in use, the signal is transmitted in analog and the TV must be able to decode the analog signal.

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Answer 2

something the governemnt made up for us to stimulate the economy

Answer 3

Digital television only means that you don't use an antennae or "bunny ears" to watch tv. Basically, as long as you have cable or sattelite tv you have digital television which has better quality than the analog tv you get with the antennae. HDTV means high definition television which is a different thing than digital television. HDTV uses more, smaller pixels to form the tv images, making for a better television.