Volume 16 Issue 2 (1998)
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The Digital Mystique: A Review of Digital Technology and its Application to Television
This article explores the divergences and convergences and convergences between the worlds of analog and of digital. It reviews some of the basic concepts of digital conversion and then compares…
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The FCC Digital Television Standards Decision
The FCC’s DTV standards decision of December 1996 is criticized on the grounds that it is likely to hinder rather than to help the development of a viable broadcasting service.…
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Content and Services for the New Digital TV Environment
Content, not technology, will encourage the widespread adoption of digital television. A broad scope of new channels and services are possible in a digital TV environment. These include high-definition television,…
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Digital Television and Program Pricing
This article explores several ways that the development of digital television technology can improve pricing efficiency, or price discrimination, by program producer/distributors—especially by the movie studios. These include development of…
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Economies’ Role in the Race Toward Digital TV
Market economics sets are a useful, indeed inescapable, hurdle that new technologies must overcome—technological innovation by itself can’t assure commercial success. HDTV’s future has yet to identify or create a…
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The Path from Analog HDTV to DTV in Japan
While Japanese broadcasters and manufacturers have been world pioneers in the development of high-definition television and digital production technologies, they have been slow to design a national system for digital…
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Digital Television in Europe and Japan
The decision of the FCC in the United States to select an all-digital HDTV system was a surprise to HDTV supporters in Europe and Japan. Both had adopted hybrid systems…