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Technology, television, and competition : the politics of digital TV /

In the late 1980s and 1990s, the advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analog television infrastructure with a new digital one. Hart's book shows how nationalism and regionalism produced incompatible standards in the US, Japan and Europe, and led to missed opportunitie...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hart, Jeffrey A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; 1 Introduction; 2 The institutional setting for advanced TV; 3 Digital convergence: consumer electronics; 4 HDTV in Japan; 5 HDTV in the United States; 6 HDTV in Europe; 7 Digital television in the United States; 8 Digital television in Europe and Japan; 9 Examples of global standards; 10 Conclusions; Index.