input: Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals, including the sound channel, using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier television technology, analog television, in which the video and audio are carried by analog signals. It is an innovative service that represents the first significant evolution in television technology since color television in the 1950s. Digital TV can transmit multiple channels in the same bandwidth occupied by a single channel of analog television. A switchover from analog to digital broadcasting began around 2006 in some countries, and many industrial countries have now completed the changeover, while other countries are in various stages of adaptation. Different digital television broadcasting standards have been adopted in different parts of the world; below are the more widely used standards:

Digital TV's roots have been tied very closely to the availability of inexpensive, high performance computers. It wasn't until the 1990s that digital TV became a real possibility.

In the mid-1980s, as Japanese consumer electronics firms forged ahead with the development of HDTV technology, and as the MUSE analog format was proposed by NHK, a Japanese company, Japanese advancements were seen as pacesetters that threatened to eclipse U.S. electronics companies. Until June 1990, the Japanese MUSE standardbased on an analog systemwas the front-runner among the more than 23 different technical concepts under consideration. Then, an American company, General Instrument, demonstrated the feasibility of a digital television signal. This breakthrough was of such significance that the FCC was persuaded to delay its decision on an ATV standard until a digitally based standard could be developed. 1. What tecjnology does DVT historically come from?
2. What does DVT mean?
3. Which nation was seen as the leaders in HDTV technology?
4. What was the older way to transmit sound and pciture?
5. What was suggested by the NHK company?
6. What previous change to TV had happened earlier in the century?
7. Which country's companies was japan's tech seen as beating?
8. When did color become available?
9. NUSE was ahead of hoiw many other versions?
10. Who showed digital was feasible?
11. where from?
12. Which agency delayed something?
13. When did the switchover start?
14. accross the whole world?
15. is switchover complete?
16. Was the FCC making a BTV syandard?
17. true or false, all countries are using the same standard Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Digital encoding,
2. Digital television
3. Japan
4. Analog
5. MUSE analog format.
6. Color television
7. U.S. electronics companies.
8. 1950s
9. 23
10. General Instrument
11. USA
12. The FCC
13. 2006
14. No.
15. Yes, in many industrial countries.
16. No.
17. False.

question: CHAPTER VIII

IN WHICH MICHAEL FINSBURY ENJOYS A HOLIDAY

Punctually at eight o'clock next morning the lawyer rattled (according to previous appointment) on the studio door. He found the artist sadly altered for the worse--bleached, bloodshot, and chalky--a man upon wires, the tail of his haggard eye still wandering to the closet. Nor was the professor of drawing less inclined to wonder at his friend. Michael was usually attired in the height of fashion, with a certain mercantile brilliancy best described perhaps as stylish; nor could anything be said against him, as a rule, but that he looked a trifle too like a wedding guest to be quite a gentleman. To-day he had fallen altogether from these heights. He wore a flannel shirt of washed-out shepherd's tartan, and a suit of reddish tweeds, of the colour known to tailors as "heather mixture"; his neckcloth was black, and tied loosely in a sailor's knot; a rusty ulster partly concealed these advantages; and his feet were shod with rough walking boots. His hat was an old soft felt, which he removed with a flourish as he entered.

"Here I am, William Dent!" he cried, and drawing from his pocket two little wisps of reddish hair, he held them to his cheeks like side-whiskers and danced about the studio with the filmy graces of a ballet-girl.

Pitman laughed sadly. "I should never have known you," said he.

"Nor were you intended to," returned Michael, replacing his false whiskers in his pocket. "Now we must overhaul you and your wardrobe, and disguise you up to the nines."
1. who knocked on the door?
2. when?
3. who did he find?
4. in what state?
5. how so?
6. what was he usually like?
7. what was he wearing?
8. what pattern?
9. what color was his suit?
10. what fabric?
11. what shoes did he wear?
12. were they new?
13. how did they look?
14. what kind of hat?
15. Did he leave it on?
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answer: 1. the lawyer
2. at eight o'clock
3. the artist
4. sadly altered for the worse
5. bleached, bloodshot, and chalky
6. attired in the height of fashion
7. a flannel shirt
8. washed-out shepherd's tartan
9. reddish
10. tweed
11. walking boots
12. no
13. rough
14. an old soft felt one
15. no

Question: (CNN) -- Michael Schumacher has been one of Pirelli's biggest critics this season, but Formula One's tire supplier has backed the seven-time world champion to end his long wait for a victory at Sunday's European Grand Prix.

The 43-year-old, who has not finished on the podium since coming out of retirement in 2010, told CNN that dealing with the rapidly degrading rubber this year was like "driving on raw eggs."

He has been outshone by Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg, but Pirelli's motorsport director Paul Hembery believes the German can perform well in Valencia, where he has failed to make the top-10 in two previous attempts.

Schumacher did, however, top the qualifying times at another street circuit last month in Monaco, but started the race sixth due to a penalty and ended up retiring early -- as he did last time out in Canada.

"I think you have to look at someone like, maybe Michael, getting the pole position," Hembery told F1's official website.

"He probably would have won Monaco if he hadn't been penalized, so why not here? Michael for Valencia, that's where the money should go."

Sauber chief: "F1 better than ever"

Schumacher, who won 91 grands prix between 1992 and 2006, was penalized in Monte Carlo due to a collision with Bruno Senna at the Spanish Grand Prix.

The former Ferrari driver has endured a miserable start to the 2012 season, collecting just two world championship points and retiring from five of the first seven races. Rosberg, meanwhile, is fifth on 67 points and clinched the first race win of his career in China. 1. What athlete is mentioned?
2. What sport is he in?
3. Who has been critical of his driving?
4. Has Schumacher ever won a grand prix?
5. How many?
6. During what years?
7. Has he ever gotten in a wreck on the track?
8. Where?
9. With who?
10. Did he qualify anywhere recently?
11. When?
12. Where? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Pirelli
2. racing
3. Michael Schumacher
4. yes
5. 91
6. between 1992 and 2006
7. yes
8. at the Spanish Grand Prix
9. Bruno Senna
10. yes
11. last month
12. in Monaco