Technology, Television and Competition: The Politics of Digital TV

Jeffrey A. Hart0521826241, 9780521826242, 9780511073694

The advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analog television infrastructure with a new digital one in the late 1980s and 1990s. Jeffrey Hart’s study demonstrates how nationalism and regionalism combined with conflicting ideas over technology to produce three different and incompatible DTV standards in the U.S., Japan and Europe. The outcome has led to missed opportunities in developing new technologies. Hart’s work contributes to our understanding of relations between business and government, and of competition between the world’s great economic powers.

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Table of contents :
Technology, Television, and Competition : The Politics of Digital TV……Page 1
Contents……Page 9
Preface page……Page 11
Acknowledgments……Page 12
List of acronyms……Page 13
1 Introduction……Page 17
2 The institutional setting for advanced TV……Page 33
3 Digital convergence: consumer electronics……Page 76
4 HDTV in Japan……Page 100
5 HDTV in the United States……Page 116
6 HDTV in Europe……Page 134
7 Digital television in the United States……Page 166
8 Digital television in Europe and Japan……Page 197
9 Examples of global standards……Page 223
10 Conclusions……Page 237
Index……Page 249