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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Entertainment

Local Broadcasters Want Mobile Standard: Free TV on Phones and Handhelds (With Ads, That Is)

3:50AM Wilson Rothman | The good news: A coalition of 800 local TV stations are lobbying to get a mobile TV standard approved by the ATSC. Rather than pay Verizon or AT&T a boatload of money to get MediaFLO content, you will just buy a product with a receiver chip and tune in whatever’s on. The bad news: Broadcasters want this because TiVo, cable and that damned internet have done away with their ad revenue, and mobile TV seems like the last good place to stick inline ads that you will have to watch. More »
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Entertainment

EU Endorses Mobile TV Standard, Good News For Australia

12:12PM Nathan Taylor | The European Commission has just announced it’s backing the DVB-H (digital video broadcasting-handheld) standard for television on mobile phones and other portable devices. DVB-H is the cousin of DVB-T, which is the digital television standard used by Australia, Europe and much of the rest of the world outside the US. DVB-H is a standard that will allow television providers to broadcast digital TV signals that meet the low power and mobility requirements of portable receivers. To translate: it will enable broadcast TV for mobile phones and other portables. Now this news is more important than you’d think for Australia. Details on why after the jump. More »
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Motorola Updates Its Mobile TV With Navigator

7:43PM Addy Dugdale | Motorola’s DH01 mobile TV, above, seen at CES last month, has been updated already. The beleaguered electronics company added a GPS navigation system to the DVR (and an “n” to the model number) and took its DH01n to Barcelona’s MWC to show off. It still uses DVB-H format, though, which ain’t exactly popular over here. [Motorola] More »
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
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Samsung and Nokia to Collaborate on Mobile TV and DRM Standard, then Invade and Split Universe

2:15AM Seamus Byrne | Giant mobile and electronics empires Nokia and Samsung have decided that it's best to work together in mobile TV. They want to accelerate the adoption of the technology, all after realizing that past collaborations often brought great benefits to famous former enemies. You know, like funky policemen Starsky and Hutch, great superheroes Superman and Batman or failed comedians Adolf and Josef. Both will now work on compatibility among their respective DVB-H mobile devices, with Samsung adopting the Open Mobile Alliance BCAST standard in addition to their current CBMS OSF. What does this mean to consumers? Hopefully, that compatible mobile TV services will be available all over the world from different operators. Sadly, OMA BCAST has it's own DRM, which leaves us pretty much OMFG STFU and learn the lesson already. – Jesus Diaz Samsung and Nokia to Cooperate on Mobile TV Interoperability [PR Newswire] More »
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