Fuzzy pictures, crackling sound, double images, they're all pitfalls of today's TV. That's about to change.

Coming soon to a television set near you are crystal clear images and CD quality sound.

It's called DTV. The "D" stands for digital.

"The technology of television is going through the same change as other entertainment technology that we use in our homes. We used to look at VHS tapes, now look at DVDs and Blue-Ray discs. We used to listen to audio tapes. Now, we listen to CDs or MP3 players. Television is going through a similar transition," says Bob Seidel.

A transition on how the TV signal gets from our station to your TV.

When TV was first introduced over 60 years ago that signal was sent analog.

A system still subject to all sorts of imperfections during the transmission process, such as snowy pictures when the signal gets weak or double images called ghosting.

"Digital television is much like those paint by number sets you played with as a child. They have numbers associated with green, another number is blue. We transmit over 4 million individual colors to the home. And each picture is made up of over 2 million pixels. This produces a crystal clear image with very vivid colors. As a result, digital television provides you a perfect picture whether you're five miles or fifty-five miles from the transmitter," says Seidel.

Other benefits of digital TV, high definition television or HD tv: it has more pixels which means the highest resolution possible and superior sound quality.

With HDTV, you can watch movies in their original widescreen format.

DTV can also generate sub-channels.

Advanced technology allows us to transmit more than one program at the same time.

All over the air signals will be sent digital.

But what you may not know is DTV has been around for more than a decade.

"Today there is over 1,600 digital television stations on the air broadcasting ditigal, high definition television, and in the future, they will be the soul source of signals for the average consumer," says Seidel.

To help with the transition, Issues and Answers will be a one hour live special edition Monday night.

Two experts will be on the show to answer questions about the D-TV transition. People can call in to submit their questions, or you can submit them now by sending an e-mail to dtv@wymtnews.com.

It all starts at seven o'clock tonight on WYMT.