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But you may find your neighbors flocking over to watch the New Year's Eve 1999 celebration at your house thanks to a ruling of the Federal Communications Commission last week that will bring digital television into the U.S. market.
Believe it or not, the technology that powers television sets--from hand-held models to the big screens for Loker--is older than a joke on "Saturday Night Live." Digital TV will bring our viewing habits into the latter half of the twentieth century.
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.
Digital TV standards will allow broadcasters more flexibility in their offerings. Some stations can use the extra band width in their digital channels to multiply the amount of data they can transmit by a factor of six. Interactive content, such as Web pages or stock quotes, could be transmitted simultaneously...