In digital television environments, navigators and Electronic Programme Guides (EPGs) are acquiring a strategically significant role: they form the decisive junction between the available contents and applications and the users. Initiated under the aegis of The Joint Commission on Digital Access of the State Media Authorities and coordinated by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, an investigation is meant to analyse the current status and the perspectives of the relevant market as well users’ behaviour.
The partial study conducted by the Hans-Bredow-Institut examined the development of the services on the basis of publicly accessible information and complementary discussions with experts. Every receiver, every set top box for digital television requires at least one basis-navigator in order to find the individual programmes in the digital data stream.
Duration: 2008-2008
Dipl.-Soz. Hermann-Dieter Schröder •
Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink
Gemeinsame Stelle Digitaler Zugang (GSDZ) der Landesmedienanstalten
Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung │ Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI)
Rothenbaumchaussee 36
20148 Hamburg
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