Word: analogizes
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Unfortunately, the new digital standard is completely incompatible with old TV sets, which were designed for (you guessed it) analog signals. Being the first on the block to have a digital set will carry a high price tag: when they are introduced in Christmas 1998, digital TVs are expected to cost between...
Digital broadcasting encodes data--in this case, the video and audio signal sent by a station--in binary form as ones and zeroes. Computers and compact discs are dependent on digital encoding instead of the older analog methods...
...Analog systems, while less complex to design, are limited by their low fidelity--their inability to preserve data flawlessly. Digital TV will allow for higher resolution and CD-quality sound...
Broadcasters will transmit both analog and digital signals for nine years until 2086, when all analog licenses will revert to FCC control. The old "channel 2 to channel 82" spectrum will be used for wireless Internet access, cell phones and other personal communications devices...
...need a new VCR to take advantage of your new digital TV, so expect to shell out $500 or so for one of those. Then again, by the time that analog signs off the airwaves, DVD and DVD-R discs will have put the VCR next to the eight-track on the dust bin of tech history, so that's not much of a problem...