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is a television set with a built in digital tuner. Most of them also allow reception of analogue signals. They do away with the need for a set top box for converting those signals for reception on a television. In January 2003 in the UK, the new level of access in new media was reported as
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igh-definition television (or TV, or just ) refers to video having resolution substantially higher than traditional television systems (standard-definition TV, or S TV, or S ). has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of S . Early TV broadcasting used analog techniques, but today TV is digitally broadcast using video compression. In the UK, it is a must for everyone to have a TV with the resolution by 2010.
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Managers of e-commerce services need to monitor the adoption of new access devices for the internet. An e-commerce infrastructure should be designed to readily enable new access media as they develop.