Doug Rasor from Texas Instruments gave a presentation on mobile TV from a company that isn’t directly involved in the market, just provides the chips…it was pretty interesting, but have I missed something? He spent time justifying why people would want to view mobile broadcast television on mobile handsets rather than specialized portable TV devices…he repeated this a number of times, for example: “While it’s possible to build a mobile broadcast network without a carrier we believe the carrier is going to be very important.” I’ve heard people say that mobile TV isn’t going to be successful, but I’ve never heard the claim that it’s going to be beaten by specialized devices or bypass the carriers…
The DMB standard from Korea and the ISDB-T standard (used only in Japan) will be in commercial use first (in fact is in use first, in the case of DMB), followed by DVB-H in 2006 and MediaFLO possibly in 2007. This and a number of other factors could explain why Rasor claimed that MediaFLO would be only in the US, with DMB in Europe and Asia and DVB-H pretty much everywhere.
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