Sony DTR-HD1 - Manual (Page 5)

Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of the Sony Digital
Television Receiver!
This manual describes everything you need to know to set up
your Sony Digital Television Receiver and provides a brief
overview of digital television.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is digital TV (DTV)?
Digital television (or "DTV") refers to the new over-the-air
television broadcast standards adopted by the Federal
Communications Commission in 1996.
There eire six formats in the ATSC DTV standard that are
described as "High Definition Television." The remaining 12
video formats are described as "Standard Definition
Television."
Although the technical aspects of these standards are
transparent to television viewers, the benefits are as dramatic
as those experienced when digital music on compact disk was
introduced — probably even more so.
Your Sony DTV Receiver is capable of receiving all 18 formats
of digital TV formats, including high-definition.
What are the benefits of DTV?
For the television viewer, digital TV represents one of the most
significant advances in television since color television
replaced black and white. Here are just a few of the benefits:
• Dramatically superior picture quality, with up to six times
the picture detail of today's analog television.
• Multichannel digital sound, including Dolby® Digital
sound.