Digital Television Platforms Research Articles

Innovative Educational Broadcasting: UGTV's Influence on Gunadarma Students and the Wider Community

Television remains a medium for delivering information and entertainment, to communities, particularly in areas with unequal access to the internet, so television becomes their primary source. This study aimed to explore how UGTV is utilized to deliver educational content to students of Gunadarma University and the wider community. Using a qualitative method with a constructivist paradigm, this study was grounded in the Media Ecology Theory. Data were collected through observation, in-depth interviews, documentation, and literature studies. The findings revealed that UGTV, as an educational digital television platform, effectively provides academic and innovative content useful for the community, particularly students. The contents are produced and packaged to be informative and appealing to the community.

Online Media Reporting Model Encourages Society to Migrate to Digital Broadcasting

This research aimed to analyze the implementation of news coverage on the digitalization of broadcasting and explore the online media reporting model for the digitalization of broadcasting in Indonesia. The online media reporting model encourages people to migrate from analogue to digital television platforms. This research employed a descriptive qualitative method to analyze news from the online media www.Detikcom edition November 1, 2022 to November 16, 2022. Additionally, it utilized Nvivo 12+ software for the data analysis. Detikcom was selected as the data source because it had been ranked as one of the top five online news media most accessed by the public, reaching 320.3 million visits. Most smartphone users, approximately 98%, have visited this site. Based on the researchers' analysis, ten media contents of Detikcom reported the transition from analogue to digital television. The research findings suggested that there is a configuration model for online media reporting on broadcast digitalization. In addition, the online media reporting model identifies the dynamics of the shift from analogue to digital television. The dynamic shift is influenced by economic, juridical, technical, and political views. These findings are expected to provide valuable insights for future researchers studying the digital broadcasting ecosystem in Indonesia post-ASO (Analogue Switch-Off) or post-digitalization.

Kültürlerarası İletişim Bağlamında Ötekileştirme Olgusunun Dijital Taşıyıcılığına Dair Netflix Dijital Televizyonu Üzerinden Bir Bakış:13 Commandments (13 Emir) Dizisi Üzerinden Göstergebilimsel Analizi

Although the concept of the other, which is now becoming a problematic one, and the history of the term identity, with which it is closely related, are similar to human history, the use of the term identity and the phenomenon of the other, which is defined through it, as a popular concept, emerged in the twentieth century. Netflix, based in the United States, which is the most important example of digital television concept in what is considered the age of digitalization, has taken on the mission of playing a decisive role in social relations. Netflix digital television, which reaches the masses with the publications they have edited, can influence the masses with the mizansen and the discourse it creates. Netflix has focused its aims on the Turkish people and Turkey, serving the relevant ideology and nurturing hegemony. The main problem of the study is the negative perception of Netflix, the digital television platform that operates on a global scale, about Turkey and the Turkish people in a strategic and planned way. The preconceived content and negative discourses developed by Netflix and the fact that it has reached the dimensions that could negatively affect Turkish people and Turkey in front of the world public opinion constitute the main starting point of the study. These publications will bring about hate speech and othering. The claim for the existence of relevant discourses and actions was attempted to be evaluated by carrying out indicative scientific analyses through the series 13 Commandments, made in Belgium in 2017.

A Consumption Tool in Sport: Buying Sport Channel in Digital Television Platforms

The purpose of this study was to determine the behavior of buying sport channel in digital TV platforms. The study group consisted of 151 voluntary bachelor students who were studied in Department of Sport Sciences. In the study, a survey which was developed by the researchers applied to the participants. Descriptive statistics and t-test for independent groups were used as statistical methods to analyze the data. As a result, it was determined that 41.7% of students were buying sport channel in digital TV platforms. Also, there are significant differences between subscription of digital TV platforms and buying sport channel according to their monthly income.

Collective Cultural Memory as a TV Guide: “Living” History and Nostalgia on the Digital Television Platform

AbstractModern audiences engage with representations of the past in a particular way via the medium of television, negotiating a shared understanding of the past. This is evidenced by the increasing popularity of reboots, newly developed history and documentary programming, re-use of archival footage and nostalgia content. This article takes a closer look at television’s abilities to circulate and contextualize the past in the current era of convergence through narrowcasting or niche programming on digital television platforms, specifically via nostalgia programming. Such platforms exemplify the multifaceted way of looking at and gaining access to television programming through a variety of connected platforms and screens in the current multi-platform era. Since the way in which television professionals (producers, schedulers, commissioners, researchers) act as moderators in this process needs to be further analysed, the article places an emphasis on how meaningful connections via previously broadcast history and nostalgia programming are also curated, principally through scheduling and production practices for niche programming – key elements in television’s creative process that have received less academic attention. Furthermore, the article discusses to what extent media policy in the Netherlands is attuned to the (re-)circulation of previously broadcast content and programming about past events, and reflects on television’s possibilities for “re-screening” references to the past in the contemporary media landscape. The analysis is based on a combination of textual analysis of audio-visual archival content and a production studies approach of interviews with key professionals, to gain insight into the creators’ strategies in relation to nostalgia programming and scheduling. Subsequently, the article demonstrates how national collective memory, as understood by television professionals in the Netherlands, informs the scheduling and circulation of “living history” on the digital thematic channel – collective cultural memory hence functioning as a TV guide.

Establishing knowledge gap issues in Kenya: Why information for innovation on digital television is difficult to access among Jua Kali artisans.

The Kenyan engineering artisans a.k.a „ jua kali‟( hot sun) engineering artisans, do not easily and readily find information for innovation in the digital television platform. The researchers, therefore, sought to establish whether engineering content shown in the Kenya digital platform inspires creativity for innovation among this category of engineering artisans who mainly operate from open air spaces and under the hot sun. The study was anchored on the pragmatic research philosophy. The study employed a mixed methods approach and a multiple case study research method. A sample of 60 participants, comprising artisans and media content producers, was studied.The findings showed that 67.9% of the engineering artisans had considered that there is interesting and available innovation content in the digital television platforms. However, there were attitudes that hindered accessibility of useful innovation information from the digital television gadgets. Media producers cited that they had not fully grasped how the digital platform can work. It is hoped that these findings will encourage the production of interesting, innovative content, that will give rise to alternative information sources for engineering artisans.

Effect analysis about using digital TV platform during the course of postnatal health education

Objective Research was performed to test how to improve the effectiveness of health education. Methods 236 patients after cesarean section, during June 1, 2015 to November 31, 2015 from Obstetrics I in our hospital were selected. According to the room number, they were randomly divided into single-number rooms, 119 people in the control group, with the aid of pictures, materials, individual or group concentrated postnatal health education, and double-number rooms, 117 people in the experimental group, based on previous education with the extra use of digital television platform. The effects of the two groups were compared. Results In the experimental group after cesarean section, patients' anal exsufflation time for less than 24 h and more than 36 h was 41 cases and 5 cases respectively, and patients' defectation time for less than 72 h, more than 72 h and less than 96 h, more than 96 h was 45, 66 and 6 cases respectively, while compared with the control group, there was 21, 83, 15 cases respectively. The differences between the two groups were statistically significant (χ2=36.90, P < 0.05). In the experimental group, the breast-sucking times within 24 hours was (9.41±1.35) times, compared with the(7.29±1.02)times in the control group. The difference between the two groups was statistically significant (t=13.76, P < 0.01). In the experimental group, the incidents of newborn adding milk, neonatal jaundice and neonatal erythema was 16, 12, 20 cases respectively, compared with the 33, 25, 47 cases in the control group. The differences between the two groups were statistically significant (χ2=7.08, 5.16, 14.56, P < 0.05). In the experimental group, the numbers of individual behaviors like brushing teeth and combing hair, and family consultation was 110, 110, 42 cases, while in the control group was 92, 85, 75 cases respectively. The differences between the two groups were statistically significant (χ2=13.35, 20.97, 17.36, P < 0.01). Conclusion The use of digital TV platform for postpartum maternal health education is suitable for mothers and their families, with the consideration of individual needs, parturients can watch materials repeatedly and whenever they want. The application will come out with better education results. Key words: Postpartum period; Health education; Digital TV platform.

Film4, Freeview and Public Service Broadcasting: Screening Films on British Television in the Multi-channel Era

This article analyses the shift in programming policy that took place when Channel 4's specialist subscription channel FilmFour was relaunched as Film4 on the Freeview digital terrestrial television platform in 2006. Adopting a similar survey approach to Hannah Andrews (2012), this article examines new data sources tracking patterns in programming and scheduling practices in order to interrogate the nationality, age and genre of films screened on both channels between 1998 and 2011. The changing character of film programming during this period is shown to relate, in part, to increased commercial pressures brought about by the rapidly evolving multi-channel landscape. But while commercial imperatives were indeed a key factor in this evolution, Film4's scheduling strategies are also shown to be a product of the broadcaster's desire to reassert its public service identity in the Freeview era. Bibliographical addition: Andrews, H. (2012), ‘Public Service Broadcasters and British Cinema, 1990–2010’. Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Warwick.

From digital switchover to austerity measures: A case study of the Cypriot television landscape

Abstract In April 2013 Cyprus and the Troika (the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund) reached an agreement aimed at addressing the country’s financial imbalances by leading the Island through a series of austerity measures. This article addresses the Cypriot digital television landscape three years following digital switchover (DSO) and currently in the midst of austerity measures. The article draws on long-term historical analyses combined with discourse analysis of current policy decisions, media coverage and expert interviews with the main stakeholders. It is divided into five sections. The first situates the case study within an appropriate theoretical framework. The second sheds light on Cyprus’ turbulent history and how it has affected the development of the media sectors. Next, it offers an overview of digital television in Cyprus and highlights how the main players had positioned themselves in the market before the country sunk into a deep recession. The fourth section underlines the financial crisis and the resulting austerity measures that have affected Cyprus, especially since 2012/2013. In the fifth and final section, the work focuses on the current situation, paying particular attention to how political and market-driven agendas have collided, with the example of the digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform Velister.

ONTOTV: AN ONTOLOGY-BASED SYSTEM FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION ABOUT TELEVISION CONTENTS

Nowadays, there are a huge number of digital television platforms and channels, so it is not easy for the viewer to decide what they want to watch. Some television providers offer information about the programs they broadcast, but this information is usually scarce and there is no possibility to perform advanced operations like recommendation ones. For this reason, viewers could benefit from a system that integrates all the available information about contents, and applies semantics methodologies in order to provide a better television watching experience. The main objective of this research is the design of a television content management system, called OntoTV, which retrieves television content information from various existing sources and represents all these data in the best way possible by using knowledge engineering and ontologies. These semantic computing techniques make it possible to offer the viewers more useful operations on the stored data than traditional systems do, and with a high degree of personalization. Additionally, OntoTV accomplishes all of this regardless of the TV platform installed and the client device used. The viewers' satisfaction when using this system has been also studied to prove its functionality.

The future organization of the United Kingdom’s DTT platform

This article looks at the complex set of relationships between the main participants in the United Kingdom’s digital terrestrial television platform, gives a brief account of how they evolved, and summarizes many of the concerns now being expressed inside the industry about the future of its organization.

Television Between Analog and Digital

This article examines the diffusion of the digital television platforms introduced since the 1990s. Thus far, the adoption of these platforms has tended to break down on socioeconomic lines, prompting concerned observers to take note of a widening “digital television divide.” But even more disconcerting than this digital television divide is the research deficit that has accompanied it. Although the adopters of digital platforms are the subject of intensive corporate and scholarly research, industry talk and television studies scholarship rarely acknowledge these platforms' nonadopters. After attempting to account for the sporadic and halting nature of the diffusion of digital television devices and services, I conclude with thoughts about how television studies scholars might redress a research deficit to which we ourselves contribute.

Sofa-TV: The New Digital Landscape

Television is attracting an enormous amount of attention from both researchers and managers, due to the profound changes that are taking place thanks to the diffusion of digital technology. The study of the digital landscape of television, including the players competing in its arena and their strategies, is well worth the effort. This paper, based on 32 case studies and the census of the Sofa-TV (Sat TV, DTT, and IPTV) offerings, aims at describing the current state of channel offerings, individualizing the principal players, and identifying their strategies, thus allowing us to give a few predictions as to the possible future changes in the industry. The analysis will have a general applicability, as the considerations made are not particularly country-specific, although performed within the Italian context, one of the most advanced in the development of digital television platforms.

Personalized and mobile digital TV applications

The introduction of mobile and broadband networks in complement to the existing satellite, cable, and terrestrial platforms, opens new opportunities for interactive TV (ITV) applications. In addition, the widespread adoption of multimedia computing has enabled the processing of TV content on personal devices such as mobile phones and PCs. The above developments raise novel issues and require the adoption of new multimedia standards and application frameworks. In particular, the explosion in the amount of available TV channels over digital television platforms (broadcast or internet protocol) makes searching and locating interesting content a cumbersome task. In this context, personalization research is concerned with the adaptation of content (e.g. movies, news, advertisements). Personalization is achieved with the employment of algorithms and data collection schemes that predict and recommend to television viewers content that match their interests. In addition, the distribution of TV content to mobile devices over broadband wireless raises the issue of video quality. Video quality depends on many aspects of the video encoding systems, such as bit rate and algorithms that model human perception of video on small screens. In this article, we examine contemporary research in personalized and mobile digital TV applications. Moreover, we present a critical survey of the most prominent research and provide directions for further research in personalized and mobile digital TV (DTV) applications.

Digital Television In Italy: From Duopoly To Duality

This paper analyses the impact of the digital transition on the television industry and market in Italy. A major concern for those interested in issues related to social cohesion and the impact of the digital transition on democratic practices is the fact that digital television platforms continue to produce a polarised market. Indeed, in Italy we are witnessing a shift from “duopoly,” a condition that has characterised the analogue television market, to “duality,” where quality TV content is migrating to pay-TV, leaving programming of lower quality on free-to-air channels. Given the fundamental function that television has played in shaping Italian democracy, the question is how this mutation from “duopoly” to “duality” will inform the evolution of democratic practices in the country. The study includes an investigation of media legislation, an analysis of the digital television market, and an exploration of the public broadcaster’s struggle to maintain a relevant role in the digital environment. It concludes that the determination of the legislature to break down the duopoly is important, but that more government intervention will be necessary in order to ensure that quality free-to-air television becomes universally available.

Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation: Performance Evaluation and Application Perspectives

Multi Protocol Encapsulation (MPE) is today the dominant method for encapsulating IP data into the MPEG-2 Transport Stream so they can be conveyed over digital television platforms (DVB or ATSC). Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) is a new alternative to MPE, providing simplicity, efficiency and configurability. This paper presents the principle and benefits of ULE, approaches the issues associated with its adoption and compares it against MPE through extensive performance measurements in a fully functional testbed under IPv4 and IPv6 load. It also proposes, implements and demonstrates the combination of MPEG-4/H.264, IPv6 and ULE as the most efficient and flexible protocol stack for next-generation transmission of digital video over Digital Television networks

Value Added Services on Digital Television Platforms

This paper examines the acceptance and use of value added or interactive services by viewers on digital television (DTV) platforms. These services like the electronic program guide, enhanced background information on programs, Internet access, video-on- demand, near video-on-demand, walled garden services have certain business value. The hype formulated in the mid-1990s gave them a priority over the good old television broadcasting service as main value drivers but due to viewers’ unfavorable reaction to iTV the hype had not met expectations and incomes generated by value added services on different DTV platforms remained rather modest up till now. Nevertheless, the huge popularity and the high penetration of mobile phone use in Europe combined with special television show formats led to fast-growing uses of text messaging recently as a new way of interacting with television. The success of SMS demonstrates that viewers will change their coach potato habit if there is some real trade-off, some consumer surplus to get, and if the way of interacting is really user friendly. It’s worth mentioning yet that text message revenues do already represent an important element of proceeds generated by many shows on the screen.