India despite being one of the technologically developing nations is still far behind in the race of adopting modern technologies. This is quite evident from the fact that Indian televisions are still tuned to analog channels and digital TV has not pervaded the society be it rural or semi-urban.Though metro cities have adopted digital TV as the only mechanism of relaying channels, transition is still due in rest of the cities. In this paper, a thrust have been given on digital TV technologies along with the reasons behind the requirement for rapid changeover from analog to digital TV for better development and better benefit per unit.