The aim of this article is to contribute to the ongoing discussions relating to the modernisation of the EU regulatory framework for the broadcasting sector. This revision would entail the extension of existing content regulations in the Television without Frontiers Directive to new platforms, including next generation broadband. In a first chapter (theoretical framework), the article will test...

Data archiving networks and electronic media libraries for video and audio broadcasting have gained a large interest recently. This paper proposes the use of smart (adaptive) antennas for HIPERLAN/2 (HIgh PERformance Radio Local Area Network/2) in order to increase the data rate and user capacity targeting wired LAN replacement in modern TV broadcasting studio environments. Spatial channel mode...

In this study, the authors examine the use of smart phones for self-broadcasting among college students based on motivation and network externalities theories. The authors propose that smartphones have changed telephones from a point-to-point interpersonal medium to a broadcast medium for individuals to disseminate information to their networks through the use of social media. The authors hypot...

SUMMARY This letter presents the design and implementation of a video streaming file server system, which has been implemented in the context of a distributed digital multimedia broadcasting environment that has been prototyped. To make a performance analysis of file systems and distributed object services for continuous media (CM) provisioning, we validate the performance of the system against...

With the rapid growth of the communication equipment performance, it is possible that communication networks, which use TCP/IP, will be able to provide real-time applications such as the broadcasting of a multi-media traffic. These applications are sensitive to transmission delay and its variance, thus estimating QoS is very important. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of an IP-based m...

This article examines the influence of the mass media and in particular television on the development of the values of pluralism and cultural diversity in children. The role of television is quite important in forming positive attitudes toward cultural, ethnic, and other groups and in inculcating an adequate perception of social reality and tolerant, multicultural awareness. The article also an...

1 Institute for Pervasive Computing, Johannes Kepler University, Altenberger Strasse 69, 4040 Linz, Austria 2UCT Research & Design Department, University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, Hochschulstraße 1, 6850 Dornbirn, Austria 3Department of Broadcasting Telecommunications and Mass Media, Temple University, Room 203B Annenberg Hall, Main Campus, 1801 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, US...

Content personalisation is one of the main aims of the mobile media delivery business models, as a new way to improve the user's experience. In broadcasting networks, the content is sent "one to many", so a complete personalisation where the user may select any content is not possible. But using the mobile bidirectional return channel (e.g. UMTS connection) visual targeted advertising can be pe...

Users of media broadcasting services generally experience different grades of overall performance because of the non-uniform conditions of their channels. In order to provide all users equally satisfactory performance, we propose a new performance criterion named “minimax disappointment” (MD), based on layered service levels and the basic principle of joint source-channel coding [1]. This crite...