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Article: South Dakota Gives Public Television Station Upgrade to Digital Signal.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Feb. 20--Movie devotees will tell you that you can't have a real movie experience unless you see the film on the big screen, with the shots and sound quality the director intended. Unless your seat rocked when Luke Skywalker destroyed the Death Star in "Star Wars," you simply didn't have the experience that George Lucas intended. Until now, that was true. Digital television is about to change all that.

This is not your current analog TV connected to a rooftop antenna. The change to digital is as dramatic as the conversion of black-and-white to color TV in the 1960s.

In November 1998, the Federal Communications Commission established a timeline by which ...

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