From High Hopes to High Deficit: article online

The article I co-authored with Caroline Pauwels, set to appear in a special issue of Telematics and Informatics next year, is available online. It deals with the European history of HDTV and draws some conclusions for its successor. The abstract:

This paper describes the standardisation process and introduction timeline of high definition television. The development of the standard is a process that goes back over 40 years, but HDTV is only today slowly finding its place in the home entertainment market. This paper explores why the European standard for analogue HDTV was not widely adopted, what Europe’s relation to HDTV means today, and proposes some general lessons that can be learned for the benefit of the development of HDTV’s successor, Ultra HDTV aka Super Hi-Vision.

You can read the full article and download the PDF right here. Please note some minor details still have to be altered, as I await final approval of the proofs. Any and all feedback is most welcome!