The picture that you receive on your television set is based on an analog transmission system that is 50 years old.
Television is about to change from analog to digital broadcasting.
We don't have a choice about converting to digital technology. The FCC is requiring that all noncommercial stations like KUSM-TV convert to digital programming by 2003. In a digital system, images and sounds are captured and transmitted using the digital code found in computers as zeros and ones. Many services already are being transmitted digitally such as the Internet, audio CDs, movies, photographs, print and telephone. For the first time, we'll be able to offer more education services to more Montanans at the same time.