Compare Prices | Create Shopping Lists with Price Drop Alerts | Set Coupons, Promo Codes & Sales Alerts | Get Access to Exclusive Deals and Much More... All in One Place | Read all about it here

High Above

High Above

Brand
Springer Nature
Manufacturer
N/A
Part Number
0
GTIN
9783642120091
Condition
New
Product Description

Frequently it is suggested that the golden age' of television was during the period 1950-1960. It is true that television almost ruined Hollywood's fortunes during this period. But if this was the authentic golden age, then it was an age of black and white, somewhat limited creativity, poor reception, lack of competition (except in the United States) and by and large public service broadcasting. However, if we take 1950 as a generic starting point' for modern television broadcasting, then we talk about a kind of prehistoric stage of the medium in which it remained for the best part of three decades. The younger days of broadcasting were the 1980s; the time when commercial television started on a large scale and, in this youth, was getting younger in terms of programming. Luxembourg-based SES Astra appeared on the scene at exactly this time. Astra was instrumental in the dramatic developments in television that we have witnessed since then. This is the story we want to tell in this book. Without satellite technology and the success of satellite reception, without the resulting mass-market penetration of television sets and general economic prosperity we would not have the necessary base ingredients to make the great leap forward into digital, into HDTV, 3D-television, and the prospects of Ultra High Definition now in sight. ... Show More Show Less

Available Colors
Available Sizes
1 Offer Price Range: $84.99 - $84.99
BEST PRICE

Single Product Purchase

$84.99
@ Link.springer.com     BUY Now

Price Comparison

Similar Products

Managementorientiertes IT-Controlling und IT-Governance

$34.99

Virology and Immunology in Multiple Sclerosis: Rationale for Therapy

$84.99

Colonial Justice and Decolonization in the High Court of Tanzania, 1920-1971

$119.99

Pay-TV in Deutschland

$64.99

Fast Neutrons and High-LET Particles in Cancer Therapy

$169.99

The Economic and Financial Market Consequences of Global Ageing

$109.99

Medienkultur und Gesellschaftsstruktur

$39.99

Corporate-Identity-orientierte Unternehmenspolitik

$59.99

Bild und Gedanke

$59.99

An Introductory Guide to Scientific Visualization

$39.99

Innovations in Financing Public Services

$54.99

Assumptions of Grand Logics

$109.99

Computer Vision ECCV 2012

$84.99

Proceedings of 10th International Kimberlite Conference

$219.99

Computational Thinking

$54.99

Computer Vision in Control Systems6

$109.99

Immunobiology of Bone Marrow Transplantation

$109.99

Entire Solutions of Semilinear Elliptic Equations

$109.99

Integration raumordnerischer Belange in die Verkehrsplanung

$49.99

Foundations and Applications of Decision Theory

$219.99

The European Union and its Political Leaders

$169.99

Mindestbesteuerung und Effizienz

$69.99

Quo Vadis?

$32.99

Economics and Policy of Energy and Environmental Sustainability

$169.99

Quantitative Methods in Finance

$119.99

Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing

$54.99

Die ultimative Herausforderung ber die Vernderungsfhigkeit der Deutschen

$64.99

Schriften zur Soziologie

$59.99

Road Vehicle Automation 4

$219.99

The Haunted House in Womens Ghost Stories

$109.00

Personal Health Informatics

$39.99

The Pacific Insular Case of American Smoa

$159.99

Genomics of Crucifers Host-Resistance

$199.99

Sports Favorites Grades 3-5

$39.00

Unsteady Turbulent Shear Flows

$109.99

The Rational as Reasonable

$169.00

Creativity and Learning

$159.99

Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms

$219.99

R-Factors: Their Properties and Possible Control

$39.99

Poverty Trends in Germany and Great Britain

$64.99