"We're at our limit until digital compression and that's a few years away."

The cable industry, too, is counting heavily on digital compression.

Technologies like digital compression, which squeezes 3 to 10 programs into a single channel, could eventually increase that number to thousands.

For one thing, cable companies are ahead on certain technologies, such as digital compression.

The signal can survive recording to video, and various sorts of digital compression.

Thanks to a sophisticated form of digital compression, most movies can be contained on a single disk side.

Some cable programmers are getting ready to take advantage of the technique, known as digital compression.

The move toward digital compression does raise a question: How many choices do viewers really need?

There needs to be a single standard for digital compression around the world.

Used one way, digital compression can create high-definition television.