Digital Dividend Focus: UK TV industry looks enviously across the channel

While the UK agonises about the viability of digital terrestrial without HDTV France has brought in a new law which provides an enviable roadmap for the future.

In France from December 1 2008 all new TVs must have digital terrestrial receivers built in and if they are high definition (HD) sets they have to have an internal MPEG-4 decoder which enables them to receive HD signals. This MPEG-4 decoder could be for the terrestrial, cable or satellite platforms but essentially the law means that all new HD sets have to have the capability to receive the signal.

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