Title: Television, technology, and competition
First published: 2003
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.
Subjects: Competition, International, Government policy, High definition television, International Competition, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Television & Video, Television broadcasting, united states, Television broadcasting, europe, Television, law and legislation, Television broadcasting, asia
Places: Europe, Japan, United States
LC classification: HE8700.74.U6 H37 2003