As if there weren’t enough mobile TV standards waiting in the wings, Samsung is planning to announce another mobile TV broadcast technology at CES called Advanced-Vestigial Side-Band, that will use digital signals from local TV broadcasters. The Wall Street Journal has some details, and Samsung PR tells us it will offer more info at the Samsung press conference on Sunday at CES:

For the technology to work, broadcasters will need to transmit separate beams to portable devices equipped with a Samsung chipset. . . The channel lineup could either be the same as local broadcasters are transmitting or special-tailored programming. — WSJ

We pointed out these other four ways that are being cooked up to offer mobile TV, and pointed out Modeo’s beta launch yesterday, which it will also announce at CES. Qualcomm is also supposed to get its MediaFLO mobile TV service up and running any day now. So many options and so much money put into a largely unproven technology.

Samsung already has phones for the mobile TV standards DVB-H, DMB and MediaFLO. With Samsung deciding to offer yet another way to get mobile TV, it seems like a good sign that the mobile TV broadcast standards battle is still largely up for grabs.