Book details of 'Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television '

Title | Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television |
Author(s) | Joel Brinkley |
ISBN | 0156005972 |
Language | English |
Published | August 1998 |
Publisher | Harvest Books |
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Reviewer amazon.com wrote:
High-definition television (HDTV) will dramatically increase the quality of the display of traditional television as well as the much-anticipated
set-top-box computer/television hybrids. And every major electronics company--and the U.S. and Japanese governments--is already imagining the
unimaginably large financial rewards to be reaped by those lucky enough to have perfected the right gear at the right time: just about every piece of
hardware in the television industry will be replaced or supplanted, from your television to the international broadcast infrastructure.
Brinkley's book introduces us to the major institutions and individuals from industry, government, and academia involved in this frantic race, and
does an admirable job of untangling their labyrinthine relations. My only quibble with the book is that it should have included at least a few color
photos of HDTV compared to regular TV. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the future of television technology--before it
happens.
Reviewer amazon.com wrote:
High-definition, all-digital TV is on the way and--someday--may actually arrive. But the story of how this multibillion-dollar business was
conceived, why cynical broadcasters jumped on the bandwagon, how a competing Japanese standard sent congress into a panic; how U.S. companies
researched, jockeyed, lobbied, spied, and bribed to set the HDTV standard; and how the government's tax greed almost unraveled the whole mess
after a decade of expensive development, is one of the great American muddles of our time. Joel Brinkley covers the brilliant engineering, the
corporate gyrations, the clumsy interventions of government, and the Cassandra voices of the press, that finally, and against all odds, led to the
creation of a workable HDTV standard.
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