@article{oai:edo.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000031,
 author = {植田, 康孝 and UEDA, Yasutaka},
 month = {2013-12-04},
 note = {The digitization of terrestrial TV broadcasting is an important target in the New Zealand ICT strategy. The diffusion of digital television receivers among households has become a key factor for smooth transition from analog to digital. The object of this paper is to demonstrate whether the digital switchover in New Zealand targeted for completion on December 1, 2013 will be implemented smoothly while referring to the precedent set in Japan. Although a complete nationwide digital switchover was initially planned for one day on July 23, 2011, differing from Japan where digital switchover was implemented in two stages as a result of the effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake, digital switchover in New Zealand will be divided into four stages for each area. Although rural areas will be switched over prior to urban areas, this is in consideration of the delay in the proliferation of digital receivers in urban areas, and as a result, switchover is presumed to proceed smoothly. Although the timing of digital switchover in the U.S. has been delayed twice, it can be expected to be implemented as scheduled in New Zealand. Since the time of the digital switchover in New Zealand is relatively late in comparison with other advanced countries, the price of digital television receivers is already sufficiently low and has reached a level that enables these devices to be easily purchased by residents, thereby serving as another factor indicating that digital switchover will be completed smoothly. Since New Zealand does not charge television receiving fees, universal service is provided in rural areas where average costs (AC) are high as well as low income households, thereby preventing the occurrence of a “digital divide” with respect to differences in location and differences in income. Differing from Japan where the failure to renew NHK subscriptions by 90,000 television viewers resulted in the actualization of a movement away from television viewing, this situation is unlikely to be actualized in New Zealand to any
conspicuous degree.},
 title = {The switch over to digital television in New Zealand},
 year = {},
 yomi = {ウエダ, ヤスタカ}
}