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| | David Wood, European Broadcasting Union — The IBC Digital Lifestyles Interviews - Digital-Lifestyles.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Essentially, the European Community helps to fund a series of research and development projects in a number of areas — and one of the areas is network, audio, visual systems and home platforms and it means digital broadcasting, interactive television, internet delivery and in home networks. |
 | | It must be a vital part of the European media industry, so we should be particularly looking to help, if that is the right word, the content industry to make life easier, to make things interoperable, to encourage competition and at the same time encourage entrepreneurialship. |
 | | In the US the plan, as we understand it, is that if you have a digital broadcast you have to put this signal in, on the one hand, and then you have to put some apparatus in the receiver which acts on it and prevents the signal being carried over onto an internet connection. |
| www.digital-lifestyles.info /display_page.asp?section=platforms&id=1509 (3013 words) |
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