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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783110503321

Autore

Hart Jeffrey A.

Titolo

Television, technology, and competition : HDTV and digital TV in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan / / by Jeffrey A. Hart [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

0-511-07369-0

1-280-43118-0

1-139-14909-1

0-511-17053-X

0-511-07367-4

0-511-32661-0

0-511-49094-1

0-511-07368-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

384.55

Soggetti

High definition television - United States

High definition television - Government policy - United States

High definition television - Europe

High definition television - Government policy - Europe

High definition television - Japan

High definition television - Government policy - Japan

Competition, International

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The institutional setting for advanced TV -- Digital convergence : consumer electronics -- HDTV in Japan -- HDTV in the United States -- HDTV in Europe -- Digital television in the United States -- Digital television in Europe and Japan -- Examples of global standards.

Sommario/riassunto

In the late 1980s and 1990s, the advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analogue television infrastructure with a new digital one. A key common feature to the debates over digital TV (DTV) in the United States, Western Europe and Japan was the



eventual victory of the ideas of digitalism (the superiority of everything digital over everything analogue) and of digital convergence (the merging of computing, telecommunications and broadcasting infrastructures made possible by digitalization) in public debates over standards. Jeffrey Hart's book shows how nationalism and regionalism combined with digitalism to produce three different and incompatible DTV standards in the three regions, an outcome which has led to missed opportunities in developing the new technologies. Hart's book contributes to our understanding of relations between business and government, and of competition between the world's great economic powers.