Technology, Television, and Competition: The Politics of Digital TV

by Jeffrey A. Hart

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521033551
• ISBN13: 9780521033558
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"