OA4: Digital Broadcasting (10-pts)
Digital Broadcasting has arrived. As you saw in class, digital signals offer some advantages over analog signals. You have learned that broadcasting media transmit signals over the air using specific range of frequencies. What is the impact of digital broadcasting on such frequencies? How does digital broadcasting translate to business? To get an initial understanding of such implications, use the web to research the answers to the following specific questions:
1. What frequencies are currently being auctioned by the FCC and on which date?
2. What are the plans for the band of frequencies being auctioned?
3. what is the last day for analog TV broadcast?
4. Will digital TV free up more spectrum? Explain.
5. Will old analog TVs be able to receive digital TV signals? How?
6. Is HDTV the same as digital TV? What other formats exist?
7. Does HDTV use more bandwidth than the current analog system?
8. What is HD Radio? Give some examples?
9. What are HD Radio benefits? Explain each one.
10. What are multicasting and iTunes tagging in HD Radio? Explain.
