"Widespread" European HDTV by 2006
A London conference on High Definition television heard from a consensus of speakers that there could be 1m HDTV viewers in Europe by 2006, and with the numbers ramping up speedily thereafter. "Defining European HDTV", organised by Inside Satellite's sister company TV Conferences (ww.tvconferences.com), looked at the technical and market-base challenges that faced Europe's adoption of HDTV.

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