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International Journal of Digital Television - Volume 3, Issue 3, 2012
Volume 3, Issue 3, 2012
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The trends in digital switchover of Russia and other CIS countries
More LessThis review examines the most recent developments in the regulation of licensing and of the line-up of digital television, as well as related policies in post-Soviet countries.The article has two parts. Part One covers recent developments in Russia’s switchover policies, while Part Two contains an assessment of some worrying trends emerging across both Russia and the other Commonwealth of Independent States countries. It points to a possible new broadcasting landscape designed by the authorities in the process of switchover.
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Australia’s ‘Convergence Review’
By Jock GivenA three-member Convergence Review has recommended fundamental changes to media and communications regulation in Australia. Set up in December 2010 to ‘take a fresh look at Australia’s existing regulatory frameworks with a view to modernising them’ and released in April 2012, the Convergence Review proposes less regulation, differently targeted, and new regulatory institutions to do it. Broadcast licensing would end but some of the obligations currently imposed on licensees would continue for major ‘content service enterprises’. At the time of writing, the Government had not announced a formal response to the Review’s recommendations.
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The political economy of DTT: An international overview
Authors: Luis A. Albornoz and Mª Trinidad García LeivaThis article offers a panoramic view of the ongoing transformations within the field of television in nine different countries, regarding their full digitalization. More specifically, it describes and analyses the shift from analogue to digital terrestrial television (DTT) through a detailed enquiry on specific case studies in America, Europe and Asia. It evaluates thus the role of public institutions and private companies in the ongoing transition of the hegemonic entertainment and information media.
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More pixels, less vision: Unraveling the politics of HDTV in the Netherlands
Authors: Eva Baaren, Eggo Müller and Erik HuizertThis article studies the policy of the Dutch government regarding the introduction of HDTV in the Netherlands. Utilizing a literature study and interviews with government officials, it shows that government choices are not always in line with the official neo-liberal policy, but are partly based on non-ideological,pragmatic or organizational factors. The findings of this case study challenge the presumption that policy choices made by government officials are based on rational and strategic considerations.
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Africa is pushing ahead in the race for 700 MHz
More LessThis article attempts to illuminate the story behind the African push to allow mobile broadband into the 700 MHz band, which caught European policy-makers off-guard, at the World Radio Conference. It aims to show why African policy-makers have more to gain and less to restrain them, than their European counterparts have.
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Challenges of television after digital switchover in Japan
By Norio KumabeThe switchover to digital television has been accomplished in Japan. Its new digital broadcast infrastructure puts more stress on the high-quality picture. The use of released analogue channels has begun, but the tempo is rather slow in the midst of digitization of other media. The broadcast programmes about the Great East Japan Earthquake were highly evaluated in general, but there are reflections among broadcasters about whether broadcasts could not have diminished the number of victims of the disaster. Having these reflections in mind, broadcasters are now facing the new challenges after transition.
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REVIEWS
Authors: Michael Starks and Geoff LealandMEDIA REGULATION: GOVERNANCE AND THE INTERESTS OF CITIZENS AND CONSUMERS, PETER LUNT AND SONIA LIVINGSTONE (2012)London: Sage, 212 pp.,ISBN: 978-0-85702-570-8, p/bk (also available in h/bk),£21.99
NEW ZEALAND FILM & TELEVISION: INSTITUTION, INDUSTRY AND CULTURAL CHANGE, TRISHA DUNLEAVY AND HESTER JOYCE (EDS)(2011) Bristol: Intellect, 291 pp.,ISBN: 978-1-84150-457-5, p/bk, £29.95
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