{"id":99,"date":"2007-08-22T11:17:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T15:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/wordpress\/?p=99"},"modified":"2007-08-22T11:17:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T15:17:46","slug":"what-is-dtv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"What is DTV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Digital Television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">DTV is a set of digital television standards set forth by <a href=\"?p=45\" title=\"ATSC\">ATSC<\/a> and bound to replace NTSC in the <st1:country-region><st1:place>United   States<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> no later than <st1:date year=\"2009\" day=\"17\" month=\"2\">February 17, 2009<\/st1:date>.<span>  <\/span>On this date broadcasters are required by a federal legislation to cease analog TV signal broadcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">DTV has certain advantages over NTSC. It uses less bandwidth per channel than NTSC requiring a narrower spectrum of radio frequencies. It allows for multichannel sound, electronic program guides, interactivity and other amenities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In practical implementation DTV is compressed using lossy MPEG-2 codec sometimes resulting in picture artifacts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">HDTV is a subset of DTV standards. DTV is not necessarily in high definition but it defines a number of <a href=\"?p=102\" title=\"U.S. HDTV standards\">HD standards<\/a> proposed for use in the <st1:country-region><st1:place>U.S.<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Television. DTV is a set of digital television standards set forth by ATSC and bound to replace NTSC in the United States no later than February 17, 2009. On this date broadcasters are required by a federal legislation to cease analog TV signal broadcast. DTV has certain advantages over NTSC. It uses less bandwidth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/?p=99\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is DTV?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}