The Study on the Regional and Generational Gap Accompanying Terrestrial Digital Broadcasting

在该项目期间，23名澳大利亚人和4名日本人在数字电视及相关领域接受了采访。从这些数据和统计数据中，得出了一些结论。具体如下：1.澳大利亚观众对以高清电视为中心的广播政策感到疏远。随着DVD和宽带等以计算机为基础的媒体的普及，人们对地面数字广播的关注度越来越低。虽然地区差距并未消失，但地区信息基础设施之间的差距正在逐步缩小。即使该地区位于农村，那里的信息和电信基础设施做得很好，也可以给人们带来像城市一样高质量的生活。应该从纵向引进新媒体的观点来看，在这一点上澳大利亚相当成功。

During this term of the project 23 Australian and 4 Japanese were interviewed on digital TV and relating fields. From those data and statistical data, some findings were gained. Those are as follows:1. The Australian viewers tent to feel alienation for the broadcasting policy focused on HDTV.2. As computer-based media, such as DVD and broadband, spread more and more, people tend to have less attention about the terrestrial digital broadcasting.3. Although a regional gap doesn't disappear, the difference between regional information infrastructures is being shortened gradually.4. Even if the area is located in the rural area, where the information and telecommunications infrastructure was done well, it can give the people as high quality of life as the city.5. New media should be introduced by the longitudinal view point, on that point Australia was considerably successful.