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sellers.

Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting January 31st. I'm Steve Murski. This week on the podcast, we'll run the gamut from A to B

with guests Michael Antonoff, Mark Alpert, and David Bielo. Scientific American editor Mark Alpert will talk about the federal budget crunch

and how it may cause the Fermi National Lab to close down temporarily.

Siam.com Associate Editor David Beello discusses the pitched battle between free open access

science journals and the ones that still charge readers, and journalist Michael

Antonoff talks about the future of television.

He's the author of the article Digital TV at Last, question mark.

In the February issue of Scientific American, I called him at his home in Forest Hills, New York.

Hi, Michael.

How are you?

I'm pretty good, Steve.

Tell us the difference, first of all, between digital television and high-definition television.

High-definition television is a subset of digital television.

It requires more bandwidth.

It requires a better display to see it and a larger display to appreciate it.

It's still digital TV, but it's a much higher quality form of digital TV.

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