Technology
In Canada, over-the-air television signals are primarily broadcast using the NTSC (analog) and ATSC (digital) formats.
The CRTC set August 31, 2011 as the deadline for full power over-the-air television transmitters broadcasting in 28 mandatory markets to move to digital transmission.
Canada has not announced any further over-the-air digital conversion deadlines. Permits for new analog television transmitters are no longer being granted.
Read more about this topic: Television In Canada
Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“Radio put technology into storytelling and made it sick. TV killed it. Then you were locked into somebody else’s sighting of that story. You no longer had the benefit of making that picture for yourself, using your imagination. Storytelling brings back that humanness that we have lost with TV. You talk to children and they don’t hear you. They are television addicts. Mamas bring them home from the hospital and drag them up in front of the set and the great stare-out begins.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)