In addition to analog Channel 5, the station is transmitting its NBC, NewsCenter 5, Oprah Winfrey , Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy programs on Digital Channel 28. Best of all, cable viewers in the region will not need a digital TV or tuner to receive the new channels.
Equipment located at each cable system converts the digital signal back into analog.
Of course, there are only a small handful of viewers in our region that have digital TV receivers. A Brief Primer On Digital Television DTV stands for Digital Television. It permits stations to broadcast programs and data with higher resolution and clarity than is possible with standard analog television. This refers to a system that provides a display resolution that is lower than that of HDTV but higher than the analog signal that is being used today. The NTSC standard we use today determines the highest picture quality possible using analog signals.