Analogue channels will be switched off region by region and replaced with free-to-air digital TV and radio services.
EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) provides equipment sales, digital broadcast operations, and satellite services that enhance today's digital TV lifestyle, including products from Sling Media, Inc.
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About EchoStar Corporation EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) provides equipment sales, digital broadcast operations, and satellite services that enhance today's digital TV lifestyle, including products from Sling Media, Inc.
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Broadcasters could continue their over-the-air offering nationwide, including new services like mobile digital TV, albeit with a smaller and more efficient piece of the airwaves.
Digital TV offers a wider range of channels than analogue TV and much of the content available on teletext-based services can be accessed on digital sets.
DVB-H, which has been adopted by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as the standard for mobile TV services in Europe, works by beaming a signal to a digital TV receiver, attached to phones.
New services like digital cable, high-definition TV, video-on-demand, and digital video recorders are proving extremely popular with customers.
Viewers using Freeview, BT Vision or Top Up TV services had to re-tune their digital TVs or boxes on 10 October, and will have to do so again on Tuesday night.
Viewers who need information on how to update their TV equipment in order to access digital channels and digital text services should call Digital UK on 08456 50 50 50 for independent advice.
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Then there is the growing trend of consumers ditching their cable and satellite television services (like U-Verse perhaps, which also offers digital TV along with Internet) opting instead to stream content over the Internet.
Customers will use the platform to receive regular TV programs as well as advanced television services including standard- and high-definition programs, interactive TV, digital video recording and video on demand.
DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld) technology looks like being the favourite, set to overshadow current TV services rolling out on 3G networks.
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