So households will have to switch to digital television, which offers better pictures and more channels.
The consumer launch of high definition digital television this fall will only accelerate these trends.
And it has the early-mover advantage that could make Sky synonymous with digital television.
The big hope was that it would come from digital television distributed by satellite.
Its control over premium programming will see it through the risky early years of digital television.
In Britain, as digital television increases the range of channels around, that decline will accelerate.
This, essentially, is the home page you see when you turn on a digital television set.
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New digital television technology proved too expensive for some after the transition from analog to digital broadcasting.
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In 1996 it passed a law designed to encourage the broadcasting industry to move to digital television.
Matsushita has also squeezed Sony out of the lucrative market for digital television-cameras and other studio gear.
At the same time digital television, which means more channels, makes it possible to cater to small audiences.
Infomercialistas are nothing if not relentless--and resistance to their pitches may be futile, especially as digital television takes hold.
Someone had to open up the U.S. West, invent FM radio and develop the American digital television recorder market.
With digital television, Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, the information is usually easy to obtain.
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He has been expanding into cinema, digital television and has been looking abroad.
Now Mr Ecclestone wants to use the wizardry of digital television to take grand prix further into people's living rooms.
Digital television viewers in Oxfordshire and parts of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire are entering the final stage of the digital switchover.
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They are hoping to entice millions of customers into doing business through Open, an interactive service designed for digital television transmission.
That may be changing--especially if you favor high-resolution digital television, which requires a much more advanced display than a traditional TV.
Its audience is already shrinking, thanks to the growth in multi-channel television, and now digital television threatens to accelerate that trend.
Now digital television and the Internet have both commercial and public-service sides.
Hollywood is already learning to love digital television, which makes it much easier for people to pay to watch films at home.
Digital television will eventually migrate to the 600MHz frequency under Ofcom's plans.
As Yuen sees it, TV Guide Interactive is essential for maneuvering through digital television, with its hundreds of channels, Internet access and video-on-demand.
That of course will change with the advent of new technologies such as digital television, and Mr Pittman's mass-media instincts will be useful here.
This material has been the basis of the expansion of global media, an expansion that is now accelerating with the arrival of digital television.
Interactive digital television has yet to arrive in India, so the first customers for the Internet over cable will be users of its 3m-4m computers.
Now suddenly there's a revolutionary change in technology--DVDs and digital television.
He has a passionate belief in the future of terrestrial digital television - strong enough to pitch himself against Rupert Murdoch and BSkyB with Ondigital.
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