HDTV broadcasting: the choices

The authors discuss mainly technical issues but the economic and market aspects of the subject can no longer be considered separately from the technology. They set out to review the range of choice of higher definition tv broadcast systems fighting for a place in the market in the coming decade, and analyse them against a range of criteria including technical performance, the availability of suitable display technology, the convergence of broadcasting with telecommunications and computing, competition from other media, market entry conditions and cost