Digital Video Broadcasting: Technology, Standards and Regulations
An overview of the technical, political, and market issues relating to digital video broadcast and digital television.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Digital Video Broadcasting: Technology, Standards and Regulations
Chapter 5: Japanese policy
5.1 Introduction
Developing a new television technology for deployment in society at large necessitates the involvement of a large number of participants, from government to industries and from broadcasting entities to telecommunications operators. Japan is no exception to this rule. However, there is a significant difference in the way such a research and development path is being forged within the policy, legal, economic, and technological context of Japan, compared with its evolution in other economic regions in the world such as the United States or the European Union.
Accordingly, before dealing with the history of developing HDTV in Japan, it is necessary to describe the environment in which these types of technological advances take place within the Japanese context. Section 5.2 presents a general description of Japanese policy and the Japanese legal framework used for such developments.
5.2 General policy and regulatory framework
In general, it is difficult for foreigners to understand Japanese law and policy making, including the policy making for, and legal development of, information and communications technologies. Meanwhile, the convergence of formerly different technologies, industries, and, consequently, markets affects the Japanese legal and policy-making process, mainly by creating an even more centralized policy development within the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPT). Let us now examine the establishment of broadcast television in Japan and how the system (the parties involved) reacted to the new technological device known as the television set.
After World War II, the re-establishment of the Japanese broadcasting system occurred in 1950 under the...
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