New TV dial positions

[Garrett Wollman <wollman>]

<<On Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:03:12 -0400, "Bill O'Neill" <billo@erols.com> said:

> Question:  How will these new "dial positions" impact upon what we know as
> their current locations.

No.  The Digital Television standard contains something known as a
``virtual channel map'', which hides the physical transmission
channels from ordinary users (just as, for example, the DSS user
interface hides from ordinary users which specific satellite and
transponder are used for its channels).

- -GAWollman

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