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In the mid-1990s, broadcasting was switched over from analog to digital. Analog terrestrial television currently (2019) only exists in a few Asian, African, and South-American countries, all other regions have rolled out digital television in the form of DVB-T, DVB-T2, ATSC, ISDB-T, or DTMB. Currently, so-called “re-analogized” TV channels in CATV networks will be switched off, finishing now a long analog TV history. Europe switched off analog TV over satellite already in April 2012. There are now a number of SDTV and HDTV channels available over satellite, cable, or terrestrially, and also over 2-wire phone lines as IPTV. Many endpoint devices and broadcast contents support “HbbTV” or “SmartTV” functionality, adding value to the broadcasting service as compared to competing offerings over the Internet like media libraries, modern videotext, etc. While 3DTV technologies and offerings have been viable for years now, it looks like 3DTV was just a fad.
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Fischer, W. (2020). Outlook. In: Digital Video and Audio Broadcasting Technology. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32185-7_49
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