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There's a good chance that a lot of people who have heard about the mandatory transition to digital TV for over the air TV broadcasts that's scheduled for February 17, 2009 is confused about it in any of several different ways. The first thing to be confused about is what will actually be happening with the transition. Fortunately, that's relatively easy to understand. Basically, there are two different formats in which TV programming can be transmitted. The older format is called the analog format and it doesn't make use of computer technology in order to encode or decode the TV programming. TV broadcasters have been using the analog format to send TV programming over the air ever since TV was first introduced back in the middle of the twentieth century.

There is a lot more technology available now than there ever has been before that can make give you more control over your TV viewing experience. This technology includes interactive on screen program guides, digital video recorders, DVD players (both the high definition versions and otherwise), and even video game platforms could be argued to be devices that can maximize your control over how you use your TV. But in the case of most of these devices, in order to take advantage of them you're required do two different things. First of all, you need to buy each of them separately which can cause you to have to deal with a profusion of devices in your home entertainment center, a profusion of remote controls on your coffee table, and most of all a profusion of cables that need to be sorted out and plugged into their correct connections. The other thing that you need to do is to sacrifice a lot of your control over the details of how all of these devices work.

One of the most interesting new TV technologies to come out in quite a while is high definition DVD technology. This technology is basically able to put enough data on an optical disc the same size as a CD or a conventional DVD to render an entire full length movie- plus its bonus features- in high definition television.

Many people are getting tired of having to pay the prices that the traditional telephone companies are charging these days for even the most basic of services. This has led a lot of people to give up their land based phone lines altogether in favor of just relying on their mobile phones or making calls over the Internet by taking advantage of some VoIP service or another. That's fine for anyone who has a mobile phone and live alone or someone who's fairly computer savvy and doesn't mind the possibility of not having 911 options. But most of us still need to have a land line at home, so how do we fight the phone companies?

For over a decade now, the cable TV industry has been getting trounced by the satellite TV industry. That's because ever since the technology to provide satellite TV- with its huge bandwidth and high quality signal- to a large number of people at very affordable prices became available, the relatively low bandwidth technology of cable TV simply hasn't been able to compete. This huge technological inferiority on the part of the cable TV industry has prompted the cable TV industry to resort to a very heavy level of exaggeration in its advertising campaigns. In many ways, this unsupported and blatant self promotion on the part of cable TV companies is probably the only thing that's kept the industry alive all of these years.

As the high definition DVD format war drags on, Toshiba and Sony are continuing to tweak their marketing campaigns in an effort to gain the upper hand for their respective formats. Toshiba is claiming that its HD-DVD format is gaining widespread favor in the overall market.

There are a number of new TV technologies on the horizon that will serve to provide a lot of entertainment for technology buffs in the years and decades to come. One of these new technologies is a type of HDTV that goes beyond what we currently think of as high definition television. This technology has four times the resolution of current HDTV, a lot more total audio channels, and the same wide screen 16:9 aspect ratio. There are several different applications for this type of TV technology. One is the ability to display four separate channels of HDTV on the same screen all at once with no decrease in resolution. This could be extremely useful for people who want to watch multiple HDTV channels all at the same time and for various kinds of security and military applications. The ability to watch four separate High Definition images at the same time would allow security and intelligence officers to pick out all of the details that they need in order to monitor any situation. For example, with security an HDTV image would radically decrease any ambiguity when it comes to figuring out whether or not someone is guilty of shoplifting.

Getting high speed Internet access in your home has never been more important than it is right now, and it's likely to get more important in the future. That's because there are a growing number of opportunities to take advantage of on the Internet. These range from educational opportunities like getting further education, to the opportunity to get entertainment, to access to jobs. Even access to information about investments and banking is being provided increasingly online!

One of the most interesting and contentious new TV technologies available today is high definition DVD technology. This new technology basically allows enough data for a full length movie in HDTV format to be encoded on an optical disc the same size as a CD or a conventional DVD. This is accomplished using blue laser technology that can encode data more finely on a disc as well as read that data back because of the wavelength of the blue laser is smaller than that of the red lasers that are used for conventional DVD's and CD's.

It's very understandable and certainly no secret that the vast majority of people who have seen HDTV love it. The wide screen, high sound quality, and level of detail in the picture are just fascinating. Equally fascinating in many ways is the technology that goes into creating a high definition television picture.

There are a lot of different kinds of services and technologies that you can expect from a modern TV service provider, and Comcast's digital cable TV service is a good example of all of the different things that are now possible thanks to the clever application of recent technological developments.

One thing that a lot of home entertainment enthusiasts don't realize is that there are more different types of technology for HDTV screens than the major flat panel technologies of LCD and Plasma screens. DLP technology- which is short for Digital Light Processing- is a realistic alternative as well.

People who are really into technology tend to want to think of technology as something the always progresses in a positive direction and that technological progress is motivated by the usefulness or entertainment value of the technology. Far too often though, technological advances are motivated or inhibited by economics or even politics, and that's exactly what's been happening with America's transition to all digital over the air TV transmissions.