News Corporation has reacted angrily to the Australian Government's plans for the setting up of digital television services in the country. A number of companies, including News Corporation, are attempting to bring in Datacasting services, a high...
He said: "One of the problems with digital television is the many different platforms - Sky, ITV or who ever takes over there, ADSL from BT when it happens - local councils will have to deal with their local cable company.
Gates also touted some under-the-hood advances, including Windows Media Video HD, a version of Microsoft's Windows Media Player that supports HDTV output. The first such products, set for release late this year, will be television set-top boxes...
The total number of subscribers to cable television remained around 3.3 million, while digital cable accounts for just over 2.5 million of the total number of UK digital households, according to Ofcom.
The main reason for this shift is the emergence of HDTV. Digital video recorders have already begun teaching people to watch TV when they want instead of when their cable operator and the network television networks dictate they watch them.
The entertainment industry is lobbying for much of that spectrum to be retained for the broadcast of high-definition TV (HDTV) and radio. It claimed HDTV services could become free-to-air - a development for which it suggested there is great...