This article presents an overview of the main findings of an interdisciplinary research project carried out by scholars from a department of translation and interpreting, a department of communication science and a department of linguistics. The project investigated Dutch open subtitling of native speakers of either northern Dutch or a Flemish (regional) variant of Dutch on Flemish television. ...

This paper studies the role of economic policy for the transition from analogue to digital television, with particular attention to the switch off of the analogue terrestrial signal. The analogue signal cannot be credibly switched off until almost all viewers have migrated to digital, due to the policy objective of universal access to television. But before switch off, only part of the populati...

Physical activity's role in promoting health is highlighted in public health campaigns, news and current affairs, reality television and other programs. An investigation of audience exposure, beliefs and reactions to media portrayals of physical activity offers insights into the salience and influence of this communication. An audience reception study was conducted involving in-depth interviews...

At the turn of millennium, Turkish television series became a global phenomenon, requiring comprehension broader social and historical context their production, distribution reception. The paper considers questions regarding genre points to socioeconomic political circumstances development transformation into cultural product with worldwide popularity an industry great market value. Particular ...

Digital television produces video signals with different bit rates, encoding formats, and spatial resolutions. To deliver video to users with different receivers, the content needs to be dynamically adapted. Transcoding devices convert video from one format into another. The reception of digital videos using mobile receivers, implies that the spatial resolution of the video must be adjusted to ...

Because of its unique digital transmission, HD Radio® requires new methods and standards to measure and predict signal coverage, relative to analog FM. Because analog FM reception quality is known to decline gradually with degraded RF signal quality, analog FM service may be quantified in simple terms of signal strength. With digital audio broadcasting, reception quality remains ‘perfect’ until...

1 Whitepaper The ATSC began work in 2007 on the development of an ATSC Mobile DTV Standard. This effort culminated in record time with the approval of the ATSC Mobile DTV Standard (A/153) in Oct. 2009. This paper will discuss the inherent challenges and the technology added to adapt the 8-VSB physical layer to mitigate the mobile fading channel and to enable ATSC Mobile DTV reception (A/153 sta...

This paper investigates the power saving mechanism of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). UMTS discontinuous reception (DRX) is exercised between the network and a mobile station (MS) to save the power of the MS. The DRX mechanism is controlled by two parameters: the inactivity timer threshold tI and the DRX cycle tD . Analytic analysis and simulation model are proposed to study ...

A report on the digital terrestrial television broadcasting system (ISDB-T: Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial) was presented to the Minister of Post and Telecommunication by the Telecommunications Technology Council (TTC) in May 1999 after the largescale field trials conducted by the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB). At the ITU-R Study Group 11 Meeting in...