Analog Vs Digital

Will the completion of the digital revolution, which will terminate upon the entire implementation of FCC regulations concerning signal broadcast doom all of your trusted analog equipment? Not quite. But it will make it more complicated and expensive to use it through required signal converters.

The truth is, that your old analog televisions will no longer be able to directly capt content as it will all be sent in digital format, much like it already is by cable and satellite dish providers. So this revolution will mostly affect those that still use either analog cable or antennas.

In the case of analog cable, it will be replaced by strictly digital content and one will have no choice but to buy or rent a digital cable box that will be provided by their carrier. This box will then convert the digital signal into analog and display it on your older TV.

When one uses antennas, they will have to buy new digital units that will capture digital and high definition content that will still be broadcast free of charge. In order to display digital signal on an analog television, the user will have to buy a signal converter. This will work much like the old cable converters of several years ago did when uhf and vhf signals were still the norm and cable had just become popular.