The analog-to-digital switch was actually mandated by an act of Congress in 2005 and signed into law early last year.
Stewart Wolpin, an analyst with market research group Points North, says only 13% of consumers know about the digital switch.
The digital switch extension, however, wouldn't be a free pass for broadcasters.
In the face of record deficits, ballooning entitlement costs and an indefinite war, the government plans to subsidize part of the analog-to-digital switch.
While developed markets have not only introduced digital terrestrial and largely completed analog switch-off, a second generation of digital broadcast (DVB-T2) is now being adopted in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
So households will have to switch to digital television, which offers better pictures and more channels.
In just about every respect, the switch to digital will be a good thing.
But if history is any guide, the switch to digital projection may be inevitable.
IDC, another market-research firm, is how a switch to digital will alter consumer behaviour.
The switch to digital may thus produce savings for studios and distributors, but it will cost cinema chains money.
The government wants the BBC to fund schemes to help people switch to digital TV through the licence fee.
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It says that if DAB broadcasts reach enough of the country by then, a switch to digital would be possible by 2017.
The popularity of online video and the broad switch to digital data in various businesses are generating huge amounts of online traffic.
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The switch to digital is creating new opportunities for foreign participation.
Researchers ultimately envision smart prosthetic limbs with near-natural reflexes, completely soft robots with complex gestures and even a switch from digital to analog computing for some tasks.
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He described classical music aficionados - of which he is one - as "a fastidious lot" who had been slow to switch to digital because of the relatively poor quality of compressed files.
While the company will likely pay more for content as it builds out the streaming business, the economics of the business appear to be improving as it makes the gradual switch to digital distribution.
Duncan has said Channel 4 urgently needs a new form government subsidy to replace the free broadcasting space it was given when it launched, and which has become increasingly redundant as viewers switch to digital.
Brazil is rolling out digital TV and aims to switch off analogue signals from 2016.
This little experiment does require every analog subscriber to switch over to digital but TWC says only a "distinct minority" will be affected.
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Switch to a digital radio and, after a lag of less than two seconds as the digital signal takes over, WETA's music wafts through so clearly that when the DJ stops speaking, one suspects the radio has been turned off.
The switch to all-digital TV has released chunks of broadcasting spectrum for other uses.
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Some of the frequencies to be auctioned have been freed as a result of the switch from analog to digital TV.
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Separately, the BBC runs a Switchover Help Scheme to help older and disabled people with everything they need to switch one TV to digital.
Beginning in February, televisions will switch from analog to digital signals.
His predicted switch from analogue to digital is now beginning to happen all over the world, but as yet nobody knows what it will do to the industry.
Under the Federal Communications Commission's requirement, cable operators must either switch to all-digital systems, or carry both the digital and analog signals of local stations in the first three years after the February 2009 conversion.
The Olympus XZ-2 is equipped with the world's first hybrid control ring, built around the lens, which allows users to easily assign function settings to their preferences as well as switch between analog and digital operation of the ring.
The coming switch from analogue to digital would liberate industries that had been constrained by the limit on the number of cable channels that can be bunged down a pipe, or the handful of broadcast channels that can fit into the airwaves allocated to television.
And new innovations such as printed circuit technology and the white space radio spectrum (transmitting data over unused TV channel airwaves as we switch from analogue to digital TV) are all helping to create a world where everything can talk to everything else, and everything to us.
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