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- Title
- High price of better definition
- Author(s)
- Given, Jock
- Abstract
- For the past three years, every media and communications company in Australia has been trying to catch the television networks' head start in digital TV. While telecommunications and pay TV companies were slugging it out over cut-price telephone calls and Super League, the three commercial TV networks, the ABC and SBS worked out that the introduction of digital TV transmissions would provide them with a unique opportunity to change the nature of their businesses. It would allow them to provide higher quality pictures and sound, more TV program streams (channels) and a range of previously unimagined interactive services---the Internet on TV. By the time the rest of them woke up, it was over. The networks had convinced the Federal Government that the best way to introduce the technology of digital terrestrial TV was to put it primarily in the hands of the people who already ran TV in Australia. [Introduction]
- Publication type
- Newspaper article
- Source
- The Australian, 22 December 1999
- Publication year
- 1999
- Keyword(s)
- Australia; Commercial television; Entertainment; Free-to-air television; Government policy; Media; Pay television; TV
- Publisher
- News Limited
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1999 Jock Given.
