Tag Archives: US
HD Penetration, what about 3D!
This article offers a very interesting view of the US market, one which is arguably more mature than many in Western Europe. Research: HD owned by many, watched by few | Advanced Television. This can only be a worse picture in the UK and other European countries. But what about 3D? The market penetration challenge [...]
Digital Transition – In Retrospect
Well, the US has begun its transition to digital terrestrial television. The transition has been messy in the corridors of power in the US simply because of concern about the disenfranchising of large numbers of the US population were simply not prepared. The mess is that now rather than the transition taking place on a [...]
Digital Transition Problems
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the Digital Transition approach being followed in the UK and in the US. In summary, it was that neither the UK or the US had the right approach as the US were doing it too quickly and the UK too slow. Since then a number of events [...]
Digital Transition Approaches
Quite famously, the US chose the big bang approach to the removal of Analogue Terrestrial transmission and its replacement with Digital, something completely different to the UK approach which takes place over a four year period. This was scheduled for February 17th 2009 several years ago, and it is rapidly approaching. However there is now [...]