Jeff Hart's Advanced Television (HDTV/DTV) Web Pages

What Is HDTV?

• ideal definition
• practical definition

Who were the Main Stakeholders?

• Consumer Electronics Industry

• Broadcasters

• Governments

• Hollywood

• Consumers

Regional Standards

• MUSE-HiVision in Japan
• HD-MAC in Europe
• ATSC in the US
• DVB in Europe
• ISDB in Japan

BOOK

ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS

• "The Politics of Transition to Digital Television," International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society, 1 (2005), 123-130.
• "Digital Television in Europe and Japan," in Darcy Gerbarg (ed.), The Economics, Technology and Content of Digital TV (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999).
• "Digital Television in Europe and Japan, Prometheus, 16 (1998), 217-237.
• "European Policies Toward HDTV," (with John Thomas) Communications & Stratégies (Montpellier, France), No. 20 (4th Quarter 1995), 23-64.
• "The Politics of HDTV in the United States," Policy Studies Journal, 22(2) (Summer 1994), 213-228.
• "Consumer Electronics," in Björn Wellenius, Arnold Miller, and Carl J. Dahlman (eds.), Developing the Electronics Industry (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1993).
• "Il parere degli esperti [The Word of the Experts]," (with Stephen Cohen), Technology Review [Italian Edition], 6 (May 1993), pp. 20-21.
• "The Consumer Electronics Industry in the United States: Its Decline and Future Revival," Business & the Contemporary World, 3 (Summer 1991), 46-54.
• "Nihon ni okeru Kohini Terebi ni Kansuru Beikoku Chosadan-hohoku [U.S. Group Studies High Definition Television in Japan]," Denshi Gizyutsu [Electronic Engineering], 32 (1990), 62-69.
• "Responding to the Challenge of HDTV," (with Laura Tyson) California Management Review, 31 (Summer 1989, 132-145.

Presentations

• "The Politics of the Transition to Digital Television," at the Technology Conference, University of California, Berkeley, February 18-20, 2005.
• "The Transition to Digital TV: Historical Analysis and Current Policy Issues,” brown bag series, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, October 15, 2004.
• “Global HDTV Policy” at the HDTV Forum 2004, DisplaySearch, Los Angeles, California, August 24, 2004.
• “The Politics of Global Standards,” Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Research, Bloomington, Indiana, April 12, 2004.
• “Technology, Television, and Competition,” at the Center for Global Change and Governance at Rutgers University in Newark, November 20, 2003.
• "The Politics of Digital Television in the United States," at a seminar held by the Stanford Computer Industry Project, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, February 3, 1999.

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