Can digital TV work with dial up internet?

I have been looking up about the switch to Digital Brodcasting. Some of the Digital TV specs stated that networks have a set amount of bandwidth for their Digital TV stations. Since one of the reasons for a national switch to Digital TV is to clear up the airwaves, I would assume that the Digital TV runs through the internet. If this is so then I would like to know if dial up users will be able to watch Digital TV. Also could Digital TV users use the phone line while watching TV?

Can digital TV work with dial up internet?
No, as a practical matter you cannot watch digital TV over dial up Internet connection..





The data rate for dial up is much too slow for that. It would be possible to download a short video over a period of hours and then watch it, but it's not very practical.





People normally get digital TV signals over the air with an antenna (OTA), by digital cable, or satellite TV. It is possible to send digital TV in real time over a very high speed Internet connection, and in some areas you can get the equivalent of digital cable TV that way using fiber optic lines..





The bandwidth allocation for a digital OTA channel is exactly the same as the analog channel that they replace. Unlike analog broadcasts, digital stations can be set up on adjacent channels without interfering with each other. Also each digital channel can send out up to six video feeds at the same time. That's how they can cram more programing into fewer channel allocations.





The old NTSC system used OTA channels 2-69; the new all digital ATSC system uses channels 2-51.