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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521033558
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96549783
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Technology, TV Shows, and Competition: the Politics of Digital TV
Publication Year
2007
Subject
Media Studies, Business
Type
Textbook
Author
Jeffrey A. Hart
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
229 mm
Item Weight
402 g
Item Width
151 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Title_Author
Jeffrey A. Hart
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378
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