Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television, Updated and Expanded

by Joel Brinkley

In this account of the political wrangling and technological breakthroughs that led to the creation of HDTV, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter “does for television...what Tracy Kidder did for computers” (Kirkus Reviews). Index.

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 1997

About the author

A Pulitzer Prize winning reporter at the New York Times for many years.

Reviews

[Thomas Gruba · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is well written, detailed and interesting given the that it’s about regulators, federal government engament, companies and international influence and impact. If you want to know how HD TV came to be, this is it. But it’s not for everyone.

[Hugh Heinsohn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lucid, memorable story of how network television changed fundamentally - most for the worse - in the late ‘80’s - with emphasis on the news operations.