The early years of the twenty-first century have seen dramatic changes within the television industry. The development of the internet and mobile phone as platforms for content directly linked to ...television programming has offered a challenge to the television set’s status as the sole domestic access point to audio-visual dramatic content. Viewers can engage with ‘television’ without ever turning a television set on. Whilst there has already been some exploration of these changes, little attention has been paid to the audience and the extent to which these technologies are being integrated into their daily lives. Focusing on a particular period of rapid change and using case studies including Spooks, 24 and Doctor Who, Transmedia Television considers how the television industry has exploited emergent technologies and the extent to which audiences have embraced them. How has television content been transformed by shifts towards multiplatform strategies? What is the appeal of using game formats to lose oneself within a narrative world? How can television, with its ever larger screens and association with domesticity, be reconciled with the small portable, public technology of the mobile phone? What does the shift from television schedules to online downloading mean for our understanding of ‘the television audience’? Transmedia Television will consider how the relationship between television and daily life has been altered as a result of the industry’s development of emerging new media technologies, and what ‘television’ now means for its audiences.
This book examines the economic, political, and technological forces that are shaping the future of broadcasting in advanced industrialized nations by comparing the transition from analog to digital ...TV in the US and Britain. Digital TV involves a major reordering of the broadcast sector that requires governments to rethink governance tools for the digital media era. By looking at how the transition is unfolding in these nations, the book uncovers the political underpinnings of the emerging governance regime for digital communications and explores the implications of the transition for the development of the Information Society in the US and Europe. The findings challenge much conventional wisdom about media deregulation and the globalization of communications. The transition to digital TV has not weakened but rather reinforced government control over broadcasting. Moreover, contrary to what many globalization theories would predict, it has reinforced preexisting differences in the organization of media across nations.
This article explores the relationship between television and video on demand (VOD), focusing specifically on Netflix and its recent move to produce and distribute original serialised drama. Drawing ...on a number of conceptualisations of contemporary media, this article positions Netflix within a contemporary media landscape, paying particular attention to how it relates to branding strategies of multi-platform serialised content and subscription cable channels in the United States. It considers Netflix-produced season 4 of Arrested Development (Fox, 2003–2013, Netflix, 2013) as a case study to explore how Netflix positions itself in relation to contemporary ‘quality’ and ‘cult’ TV and associated viewing practices and draws on theories of post-postmodern capitalism to understand its function within a broader socio-political context. As such, it places Netflix within discourses of VOD, TVIII, branding, contemporary viewing practices and consumer practices in post-postmodern capitalism.
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Indonesia is one of the countries that currently struggle to switch terrestrial television from analog to digital. The Indonesian government has distributed terrestrial digital decoders in ...several trial areas so that the recipients can experience the terrestrial digital broadcasts on their old analog television. The distribution of the decoder is expected to encourage recipients to convert to digital completely. Once the decoder cannot be used anymore, the recipients can choose either to purchase integrated digital television (DTV) or a new decoder to keep experiencing the terrestrial digital broadcasts. This study focuses on the consumers’ intention to buy a new decoder based on respondents’ demographics, television media consumption, pay television subscription, the availability of public, private, and cross-border television signals, and the perception against digital terrestrial-related factors. Primary data was collected through a survey in several free decoder distribution locations, while the samples consist of the decoders’ recipients. This study uses binary logistic regression as the analysis method. The results indicate that the intention to buy a decoder is influenced by geographical location, the subscription to both cable-based and satellite-based television, TV-viewing duration, the satisfaction with the quality of digital terrestrial television, and the satisfaction with the decoder they have received.
The rate of consumption of dithiothreitol (DTT) is increasingly used to measure the oxidative potential of particulate matter (PM), which has been linked to the adverse health effects of PM. While ...several quinones are known to be very reactive in the DTT assay, it is unclear what other chemical species might contribute to the loss of DTT in PM extracts. To address this question, we quantify the rate of DTT loss from individual redox-active species that are common in ambient particulate matter. While most past research has indicated that the DTT assay is not sensitive to metals, our results show that seven out of the ten transition metals tested do oxidize DTT, as do three out of the five quinones tested. While metals are less efficient at oxidizing DTT compared to the most reactive quinones, concentrations of soluble transition metals in fine particulate matter are generally much higher than those of quinones. The net result is that metals appear to dominate the DTT response for typical ambient PM2.5 samples. Based on particulate concentrations of quinones and soluble metals from the literature, and our measured DTT responses for these species, we estimate that for typical PM2.5 samples approximately 80% of DTT loss is from transition metals (especially copper and manganese), while quinones account for approximately 20%. We find a similar result for DTT loss measured in a small set of PM2.5 samples from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Because of the important contribution from metals, we also tested how the DTT assay is affected by EDTA, a chelator that is sometimes used in the assay. EDTA significantly suppresses the response from both metals and quinones; we therefore recommend that EDTA should not be included in the DTT assay.
The term digital applied to television did not appear until we began talking about digital terrestrial TV (DTTV), that is, long after this information coding system had appeared in the world of ...television. This paper, therefore, examines the various changes performed in the television production by computer-generated images and special effects in the 1990s, the broadcasting with DTTV in the early 21st century, and channel delineation in the last decade. Based on practices and uses, it highlights the gaps which sometimes exist between technical possibilities and user ownership, particularly according to television genres. Then, television borrowing from social sharing sites and eventual relinearization are discussed before examining what platforms change in content consumption.
Television attracts millions of viewers all over the world, and this great interest in this media is increasing with the rapid and modern changes in media. Technology has clearly intervened in all ...stages of television image to provide an image of the highest possible quality in form and content. The stage of television broadcasting is one of the most important stages of the television system, which has advanced significantly in recent times thanks to digital systems, dozens of satellites, the development of Internet networks and the revolution of social media.The research will deal with the different technology of television broadcasting systems and its effectiveness in the local and global television image. The problem of the study lies in the confusion between the concepts of multiple broadcasting systems and the lack of technical bases and rules for those systems to ensure obtaining the highest possible quality on different TV screens. The study will attempt to answer some questions, such as what extent is possible to activate the various digital broadcasting systems locally and globally? And what is the difference between broadcasting and streaming? The study aims to clarify the differences between the technology of different television broadcasting systems and their impact on the quality of the video image, to highlight the extent to which the latest broadcast technology can be applied, and the extent to which interactive television systems have developed with the development of television broadcasting technology, and to clarify the areas most affected by digital television broadcasting technology
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