21.   One favorite is Scientific-Atlanta, the Norcross, Ga., maker of set-top boxes that convert digital television signals to analog broadcast signals.

22.   Siemens favors an analog signal, Weiss said, because previous experiments with digital transmission have failed, he added.

23.   Siemens favors an analog signal because previous experiments with digital transmission have failed, according to Hans-Joachim Weiss, an executive responsible for hearing-aid marketing.

24.   Standard cable transmits analog signals through its wires.

25.   Such pictures have five times the clarity of traditional TV pictures, carried by analog signals, and far better sound.

26.   The digital signal is clearer than a traditional analog signal.

27.   The drives convert digital signals to analog signals and thus improve the audio quality.

28.   The digital signal will not fade into a ghost-haunted snowstorm, as analog signals do when they travel too far from the transmitter tower.

29.   The Internet was just taking off and networking equipment makers needed chips to convert slow-moving analog signals into faster digital ones.

30.   The products that Motorola and Sarnoff are collaborating on use digital broadcasting rather than the analog signals that television broadcasters use today.