Television, technology, and competition
Subtitle: HDTV and digital TV in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan
By: by Jefffrey A. Hart.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: 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.
Description: "In the late 1980s and 1990s, the advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analog 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 analog) 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.