The Future of Television

• HDVT
• High Definition Television enhances the quality of the picture on your screen as well as the quality of the sound. HDTV will eventually allow the connectivity of computers to televisions.
• Features include:
• Higher picture sharpness
• Larger and wider pictures
• More color
• Multi-channel digital quality sounds

• DSS
• Digital Satelite Systems is becoming the next step in Television after Cable TV. More channels can be viewed through DSS than through the coaxial cable of Cable-TV. Using a  pure digital signal through MPEG-2 standard video compression there is room for interactivity, and it is able to support video on demand and other interactive possibilites.

• V-Chip
• The Violence Chip is a new chip that will be installed in all television sets from this point on as mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This programable chip, will allow parents when buying their television sets to be able to program in certain criteria of the programs they do not want to see, or want their children to see.  Such criteria includes voilence, sex, or inappropriate language.  Programs that have been predetermined of having any of these attributes will be blocked out on the television set.
• This called for a rating system which President Clinton mandated as a way to code all the programs on television to easily assist the v-chip.