was the official web portal for the United States’ Digital Television (DTV) Transition, a massive government-mandated project overseen by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). While the peak of its relevance occurred between 2007 and 2009, the site and the legislation behind it fundamentally altered how the American public consumes broadcast media.
Digital Television uses (typically MPEG-2) to broadcast signals as streams of "ones and zeroes". This differs from analog, which uses continuous waves prone to "ghosting" and static. dtv.gov
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