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7. Digital broadcasting is a good bit less prone to static..

If you have had a satellite dish on during a heavy rainstorm you may have seen how it pixelates out or freezes and then the signal just goes away. Normally you have either a very good picture or nothing with very little in between.

Satellite broadcasts are digital, now terrestrial TV broadcasting is digital also and gets the same benefits.

Digital broadcasting is also highly resistant or perhaps even immune to "ghosts", which is signal reflection off relatively nearby objects.

Rather like the way it's possible to play a somewhat scratched or dirty DVD because of error correction algorithms in the DVD format, digital broadcasting can correct for signal errors to some extent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_tuner#Error_correction

Error correction is a technology that is used by the ATSC tuner to make sure that any data that is missing can be corrected. For instance, sometimes interference or a poor-quality signal will cause the loss of some data that the ATSC tuner receives. With error correction, the tuner has the ability to perform a number of checks and repair data so that a signal can be viewed on a TV set. Error correction works by adding to the signal before transmission some extra information that can be used upon reception to fill in gaps. Therefore, error correction has the opposite effect of compression—it increases the amount of data to transmit, rather than reducing it like compression does, and it improves the quality and robustness of the signal rather than reducing it. Compression removes redundant (and some non-redundant) data, while error correction adds some redundant data. The reason for using error correction rather than just using less compression and keeping the redundancy that was already there is that error correction systems are specially designed to get the maximum benefit out of a very small amount of redundant data, whereas the natural redundancy of the data doesn't do this job as efficiently, so with error correction the net amount of data needed is still smaller.