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Visual networking : keeping television on the box

conference contribution
posted on 2011-01-01, 00:00 authored by Toija CinqueToija Cinque, David MarshallDavid Marshall
The Australian National Broadband Network (NBN) is the largest infrastructure project ever proposed in Australia (NBN, 2010). Its Fibre to the Home open access network will see a new generation of telecommunications services providing the basis for technologies and services to be combined. Homes connected to the network will have access to new digital media and high-speed internet among other applications. Taking an Australian perspective, this paper focuses on the capacity for fast broadband to allow features and technologies to be combined that were once separate, but now have converged including computing, telephony, free-to-air (FTA) television, direct-to-home satellite broadcasting, radio, and the internet and the implications. Specifically, future services for digital television are going to be more akin to app-based functions that are currently available on mobiles and tablets but on the television screen rather than the PC. Against such a background, this article examines the future of television arguing that faster broadband and internet-enabled televisions to watch movies and shows when it suits the audience are the keys to the television’s survival.

History

Pagination

128-140

Location

Sydney, N.S.W.

Start date

2011-11-07

End date

2011-11-08

ISBN-13

9780980434446

ISBN-10

0980434440

Language

eng

Notes

Presented at the Communications Policy and Research Forum 2011, 7-8 November 2011

Publication classification

E1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2011, The Authors

Extent

31

Editor/Contributor(s)

Armstrong M, Papandrea F

Title of proceedings

Record of the Communications Policy and Research Forum 2011

Event

Communications Policy and Research. Forum (2011 : Sydney, N.S.W.)

Publisher

Network Insight Institute

Place of publication

Sydney, N.S.W.

Series

Communications Policy and Research Forum