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In 2009, all television stations in the U.S. switched from analog broadcasting to digital broadcasting. To continue receiving programs, analog televisions needed a digital tuner or digital...

For the first half-century of the medium, almost all televisions were analog televisions. But as of 2009, they have now largely been replaced by digital TVs, which can pick up the digital signals...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has switched off full-power analog TV broadcasts. They want to use the spectrum for other purposes. Older televisions will no longer pick up free-to-air...

When all broadcast television stations switched to digital broadcast signals in July of 2009, it became impossible for a stand-alone analog television to receive the digital signals. This...

Analog TVs have officially passed into the realm of the obsolete. They provided reliable television reception for many decades---starting with the Golden Age of television in the 1950s and lasting...

Analog converter boxes are used to transform digital television signals into a signal that can be understood and displayed on older TV sets. The boxes became necessary in June 2009 when the...

Since television stations have stopped broadcasting in analog signal and converted to digital, it is important to know if your television is digital or not. This is because analog TVs are not...

The digital crossover in 2009 heightened the differences between older analog TVs and the digital televisions that have now replaced them. The need for the crossover and the changes it entailed...

With technology booming and the discovery of high definition television and computing, the need for old analog televisions and old computer monitors has passed. Newer flat screen monitors and flat...

When it comes to the television world, there are primarily two kinds of TVs: analog and digital. The main difference between them is how they receive their signal, with the analog televisions...

The majority of analog TV broadcasts ceased to broadcast in the U.S. in 2009, but some low-power stations continued to operate indefinitely. Television sets without digital tuners have two options...

In the summer of 2009, all television stations in the United States stopped broadcasting in analog---which they had done for many decades---and started broadcasting in digital instead. The move...

Digital televisions can accept both analog and digital signals, while analog televisions can only receive analog signals. Issues can arise with digital TVs that will cause problems with both the...

For the last 80 years or so, television signals have been broadcast over the airwaves in analog format. This means televisions with antennas, rabbit ears or well-sculpted pieces of foil could pick...

The United States converted from analog broadcasting to digital broadcasting on June 12, 2009. On that day all full-power TV stations were required by law to make the switch.

In the summer of 2009, TV stations in the United States stopped broadcasting in analog format and started broadcasting digitally. Digital TV signals allow such things as high-definition TV...

On June 12, 2009, a law mandating that all full-power broadcast television stations switch from an analog signal to a digital signal went into effect. Much of the hype around the benefits of the...

Television stations are all converting to digital transmission for a reason. The digital broadcast signal has numerous advantages over the analog signal that will aid television broadcasts in the...

The first TV broadcast took place in 1928. This marked the beginning of the era of analog or (CRT) TVs.

Digital televisions replaced older analog sets in mid-2009. The term "digital" refers to the way in which television signals are broadcast and the means by which the information is picked up and...

If you have an older TV, your TV is probably only ready to receive analog broadcasting through your antenna. However, all free, over-the-air television has transitioned to digital TV. By law of...

Technology provides new innovations and inventions that shape the style of the lives of people across the world. It helps integrate new techniques and scientific discoveries into everyday life,...

Terrestrial digital television is the transmission of a television signal with land-based antennas. The major difference between digital and analog TV signals is that the digital signal is...

With U.S. television broadcasters slated to complete a switch to digital signals in June 2009, owners of analog televisions who rely on signals received over the air are going to be left in the...

Analog TV signals are transmitted over the air as frequency and amplitude modulation, the same as with radio. Digital TV is also transmitted over the air, but as bits and pieces of data, very much...

Digital transmission is in the midst of replacing older analog transmission, which was used successfully for many decades in television, radio, telephone transmissions and other forms of data....

The government and television stations spent billions of dollars warning customers that their analog televisions would lose their pictures once the digital conversion was completed, unfortunately...

Analog TVs are mostly older types of TVs that are slowly going the way of the dodo. They were so named because they received analog signals--signals which were analogous to the sounds and images...

Digital television sets are programmed to receive digital signals instead of the old analog signals that TV stations used to broadcast. That's important because--by the middle of 2009--all U.S....

Analog signals and digital signals are commonly referred to in contemporary television and stereo systems. But what do the terms mean? More importantly, what difference to they make in terms of...

On February 17th you may find yourself scratching your head wondering what to do with your outdated analog television when many city landfills have banned them and many recycling centers will not...

With the federally mandated changeover to digital television broadcasting taking effect Feb. 17, 2009, you may be wondering what is so special about a digital tuner. In order to receive television...

DTV stands for digital television. DTV has many advantages over analog television. It doesn't suffer from reception problems, such as electromagnetic interference and ghost reception. In most...

On February 17, 2009, all TV stations must stop broadcasting in analog and start broadcasting exclusively in digital. Because of this, many people with analog TV sets will not be able to receive...

Digital Television (DTV) is a more technologically advanced form of broadcasting that allows the viewers better options. DTV makes it possible for broadcasters to offer television with higher...

In many ways, a digital television is more like a computer than what we are used to seeing as a television. Older televisions depended on receiving an analog signal, which was broadcast over a...

Televisions in the common home have been around since the 1950s. As a society, we have survived with analog broadcasts. But when the United States is forced to watch digital television broadcasts...

In February 2009, The Federal Communications Commission will make analog television broadcasts obsolete; digital broadcasts from television stations will be the standard. You can get an...

An analog television works by transferring electromagnetic waves into sound and light energy. The TV box works much like any receiver, in that it takes in electrical impulses sent from elsewhere...

Television as we know it will end in the United States in less than a year. On February 17, 2009, all analog television broadcasting will cease in the US, rendering all analog receivers that...