Sentence examples for dtv from inspiring English sources

The only question is how long it will take.Digital television (DTV for short) has been slow to arrive the first patents for digital communication were filed 70 years ago because compressing video into manageable streams of binary digits ("bits") is much harder than compressing streams of audio.

There is only enough frequency space for a limited DTV service alongside the existing analogue transmissions.

And with all the costly development work already done on the computer chips needed for DTV (thanks to DVD players and digital recorders which use similar innards), set-makers are rubbing their hands at the prospect.Television broadcasters are also great fans of digital transmission, because it offers them an extremely flexible range of transmission options.

This is the dilemma facing broadcasters seeking to set up DTV services and governments that allocate the necessary frequencies.

The manufacturers like that.Even more, they appreciate the way DTV is creating the sort of flurry of fresh demand for receivers, screens and recorders not seen since the 1980s.

DirecTV in America and Sky in Europe were able to launch DTV services to compete with cable as soon as the enabling technology became available.

Just as MP3 compression can either squeeze a huge amount of low quality music into a small memory store or deliver a small amount of high quality sound, so the capacity cake for DTV can be cut any way the broadcaster wants.

In testing some early Mobile DTV-compatible prototypes, I found the signal held up well in cross-town Manhattan traffic with only occasional stuttering of the sound and picture.

The nine station groups -- the Belo Corporation, the Cox Media Group, E. W. Scripps, Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television, Media General, the Meredith Corporation, Post-Newsweek Stations and Raycom Media -- will be represented in the venture by the newly formed Pearl Mobile DTV Company.

If enough people watch using the mobile TV technology, known, for lack of a more marketable name, as "ATSC Mobile DTV Standard," local stations will be able to charge more for commercials and increase their revenue.

That was exactly what producers at Noggin, an educational network owned by Nickelodeon and Sesame Workshop, had in mind for the latest episode of their reality-based series "A Walk in Your Shoes," which has its premiere tonight at 6 on both Noggin (on Time Warner DTV Channel 129 in Manhattan) and Nickelodeon.