This paper presents the potentialities of the new digital television in UHF (Terrestrial Digital Video Broadcasting– DVB-T) in supporting novel tele-learning applications, such as the “virtual classroom”, where the lecturer and the students are virtually present in the same classroom from their own premises. Based on the ATHENA FP6-507312 concept for the transition from analogue to digital terr...

Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (COFDM) [1, 2] has been specified for digital broadcasting systems for both audio -Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) [3] and (terrestrial) television -Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB-T) [4, 5, 6]. COFDM is particularly well matched to these applications, since it is very tolerant of the effects of multipath (provided a suitable guard interval is u...

This study aims to explain the challenges in decentralization of television broadcasting Indonesia, specifically, role political transformation over last 20 years. Three provinces, i.e., Bali, South Sulawesi, and Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, were selected represent various operation characteristics Indonesian provinces. Focusing on private broadcasting, case examines challenge policies Indonesia...

Traditional human-computer interaction settings involve a taskoriented approach where the human interacts with an application to accomplish a particular goal. The emergence of media-rich computer-mediated leisure applications requires a fresh view of the current paradigms and a careful examination of how this change of perspective affects their relevance. This paper proposes a metaphor for acce...