What is the difference between Analog and Digital TV?

The analog TVs are already going into extinction as the Digital TVs are gaining more ground and popularity. One major difference between them is that analog TV can process analog signals, while digital TVs can process both analog and digital signals. The analog TVs are well known to be easily prone to some problems like distorted display, noise, and interference.

Though digital TVs too can give these issues some times, that is, if they are operating on analog signals, it can be easily controlled by switching to a digital signal. Analog TV sets have their display, which makes use of cathode ray tubes, while digital TVs make use of the flat panel, such as LED, LCD, and plasma for display. The digital TV sets consume less power than analog TV sets. In addition, digital TV sets are usually lighter and quite portable, while analog TV sets are known to be bulky and big.

There was a time when Analog TVs were the most used types of Television, but the era of analog televisions being the most common ones is gradually going to an end. This is because digital TVs are now being used by people and the reason for this might not be unconnected with the fact that digital TVs are more okay in terms of their functionalities than analog TVs. It should be noted that analog TVs are different from Digital TVs. The first difference is that, analog TVs can be considered as old set of TVs, while digital TVs are recent TVs which are made to fill the shortcomings of analog TVs.

Analog TVs use analog signals, while digital TVs make use of both digital and analog signal. Also, analog TVs usually have problems relating to distortion and noise, digital TVs are also prone to this if they are using analog signals, while they usually don't have the problem if they are using digital signals. Analog TVs are bigger than digital TVs in terms of size.