英国是数字电视发展最为迅速的国家之一,BskyB在付费电视和数字直播卫星方面的业绩也一直为业内称道,但正是为了挑战BskyB过于强势的地位,英国政府开始鼎力支持地面数字电视的发展,卫星、地面无线和有线三大平台的数字化竞争由此拉开帷幕,这场竞争充满故事性,本刊特约熊静和刘岩二位作者从《新电视,旧政治》一书中摘译《英国数字电视的转换之路》一文,分期刊发,期待读者与我们共享英国数字电视发展史上的重要片段。(本期刊出下篇) Britain is one of the countries with the most rapid development in digital television. BskyB’s performance in pay-TV and digital direct-broadcast satellite has also been praised by the industry. However, just to challenge BskyB’s over-strong position, the British government started to support the development of terrestrial digital television The satellite digital terrestrial wireless and cable platform competition kicked off, the competition is full of story, the author of special Xiong Jing and Liu Yan two authors from the “New TV, the old politics,” a book translated “Britain Digital TV Transformation Road, ”a text, issued in phases, expect readers to share with us the history of British digital TV in the important passage. (This issue of the next article)