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must-carry
Last modified: Thursday, June 19, 2008
In digital television the term must-carry is used to describe the legal obligation of a cable company (the carrier) to carry analog or digital signal broadcasts.
Webopedia's Did You Know ... All About Digital TV, DTV and HDTV While many use the terms Digital Television (DTV) and High-definition Television (HDTV) interchangeably, they are, in fact, two very different things. DTV refers to the actual TV signal being transmitted digitally (instead of as an analog signal). DTV offers several broadcast options, which two are considered to be HDTV formats.
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