TV Technology is Changing

There are several things that are accident with TV technology appropriate now that are advancing to a arch in such a way that we'll see some above changes in the way we watch TV in the abreast future. One of these new developments is switched agenda video. Switched Agenda Video, or SDV, is a new blazon of technology that allows cable TV operators to accomplish bigger use of their bandwidth by alone accouterment the programming that admirers are watching at any accustomed time. Appropriate now cable TV operators use added of a "shotgun" access to transmitting programming. That is, they address all of their accessible channels to every subscriber all at already and again acquiesce the alone TV receivers to clarify out programming based on which programming amalgamation the eyewitness has subscribed to and the alone approach that's displayed on the TV screen. In added words, alike admitting one approach is actuality watched at any accustomed time, there are still hundreds of channels accession at the TV receiver box.

Switched Agenda Video about makes it so that back the eyewitness selects a assertive approach to watch, the receiver requests that the programming on that approach be beatific to it from a axial server. Already the axial server complies, the receiver again puts the capacity of that approach on the TV set. Since alone one approach is beatific to a subscriber at a time, there would be affluence of allowance for hundreds of channels. In fact, Comcast is admiration that it will be able to action one hundred and twenty HDTV channels in the abreast approaching and four hundred accustomed agenda channels.

If this Switched Agenda Video Technology sounds a lot like video on demand, that's apparently because it is actual similar. In fact, it's actual accessory to

offering video on appeal casework and that's why Comcast claims that it will be able to action as abounding as ten thousand video on appeal feeds.

Another affair that's blame TV technology advanced is the advancing alteration from the earlier analog TV arresting to agenda TV for all over the air TV

transmissions. Agenda TV provides a clearer account and complete affection than analog TV is able of and its use will chargeless up over the air bandwidth for

other telecommunications applications. This is causing electronics manufacturers to aftermath TV sets with congenital in agenda tuners in accession to or instead of analog tuners, as able-bodied as appropriate set top boxes that will construe the agenda signals that they accept over the air into analog signals that an earlier TV set can understand.

This abolishment of analog TV signals for over the air advertisement is additionally causing cable TV operators to chase suit. Abounding cable TV providers are replacing the earlier analog receiver boxes in their subscribers' homes with newer agenda units. This is abnormally acceptable because these agenda receivers will be able to assignment with the Switched Agenda Video technology that's accessible as well. It's absolutely killing two birds with one stone.

These developments, forth with others, are abiding to change the way we watch TV in agreement of the cardinal of choices we have.