The cost of rolling-out the technology and spectrum availability will be the major factors in determining which of the various competing mobile TV technologies will survive, according to Windsor Holden, senior analyst at Analysys. He thinks it will be very rare to have more than one technology operating in a country, especially smaller ones. UK is a prime example of standards overload, with DVB-H, DAB and MediaFLO all looking to set up operations within the country. Holden also has a good opinion of Alcatel’s satellite-based version of DVB-H, which is a late development but offers quite a few bonuses.
Meanwhile, there’s an interesting tidbit in an SMH article about media trends, that says that “long-form TV-style content will be wildly popular on mobile devices, despite the conventional wisdom that says two- to three-minute grabs is where the action in mobile content will be”.
In other mobile TV news, Taiwan is on the list of companies due to get it with a service due for launch in late 2007 or early 2008, an MDTV service from Israeli company Siano.
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