Digital television
(M Haseeb Vohra, karachi)
Abstract Content, not
technology, will encourage the widespread adoption of digital television. A
broad scope of new channels and services are possible in a digital TV
environment.
These include high definition television, video-on-demand movies, theme
channels, multicasting or the distribution of the same content on different
channels at different times, Internet content on TV sets, video segments on
personal computers, interactive shopping and games, and program guides for
hundreds of channels.
There are many opportunities for more and better content but there are also
uncertainties about the business models for digital TV and concerns about who
will control content. Keywords: digital TV, HDTV, interactive TV, multimedia.