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.)