Archive for 'Mobile TV' Category
Mobile TV Fever in Asia-Pacific
24 January 2008The rush of trials and commercial launches of broadcast networks in
Japan and Korea are harbingers of mobile TV fever in Asia Pacific
for the researchers at Frost & Sullivan.
The total Asia Pacific mobile video market is projected to hit $1.88
billion in 2013 with growth coming primarily from mobile TV and
video streaming.
“The market is expected to hit […]
Mobile TV, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
24 January 2008CES began its mobile entertainment sessions with a look at mobile TV
and usage, and as the Bachman Turner Overdrive would say, “Baby, you
just ain’t seen nothing yet.”
With SanDisk unveiling some new 12GB microSDHC chips for mobiles,
and the slew of new accessories and services unveiled for mobiles,
mobile TV has a chance to boom in the coming […]
Hip Hop Comes to Verizon Wireless
22 January 2008Hip Hop Official has landed on Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Video
subscription service as a premium channel. Hip Hop Official, a
mobile source for hip hop music, interviews, reviews, news and
fashion, is $4.99 a month with any V CAST subscription.
Comcast Debuts Fancast Entertainment Portal
22 January 2008No question about it. These are not the best of times for America’s
largest cable company Comcast.
The company’s stock is close to a 52-week low, growth in its basic
cable business is slowing if not falling, Verizon’s more advanced
FiOS service is nipping at its heels, and consumers are rushing to
embrace ever newer forms of entertainment devices like […]
Three Cavalries to the Rescue for HD Video Delivered Over the Net
22 January 2008-P2P in Demand for HDVideo Delivery
P2P (peer-to-peer) technologies, the scourge of the music and movie
business for its use as a high-speed piracy tool, is resurrecting
itself as a means for delivering high-definition video over the
bandwidth-challenged broadband networks that are available to most
homes.
The sudden popularity of high-definition videos raises the […]
LG Promises Free TV to Mobile Devices
22 January 2008- Digital TV Broadcasts from Local TV Stations Can Be Received by
Devices on the Move
- Technology Ready This Year
LG, the $11.5 billion South Korean consumer electronics maker, wants
to add free, live TV to mobile devices. The company, which is number
one in the world in French-door refrigerators, has developed
technology called MPH (mobile, pedestrian, handheld) that allows
local […]
Sino-US Silicon Venture Legend Silicon Has Mobile TV Chips Ready
19 January 2008Faultline reports that Legend Silicon, a chip design company that
has a foot in the US Silicon Valley and in the Beijing based
Research Center at Tsinghua University, says it’s ready to deliver
not one, but two mobile TV chips for the Chinese market and multiple
DMB-TH digital TV chips.
Legend’s claim to fame is that it has contributed intellectual
property […]
Intel, CE Makers Lead WirelessHD Gang
4 January 2008
- Wireless Connection of TV Sets, DVD Players, Digital Cameras
- Spec 1.0 Finished for Transmitting HD Signals within a Room
A number of large consumer electronics companies such as Panasonic, Sony and Toshiba as well as Intel and SiBeam, a start-up technology company, are developing a short-range wireless technology called WirelessHD that can be used to […]
TV Soaps Break into India’s Mobile Phones
4 January 2008Rajshri Productions’ Rajat Barjatya will be providing the first serial series for handsets in India. The series will be a 90-episode, humor-based soap opera. “Earlier there was cinema and TV,” said Barjatya, who is the younger brother of Rajshri founder Sooraj Barjatya and head of Rajshri Media, a new company specializing in producing content for […]
Verizon Wireless, ESPN, CBS, Fox
20 December 2007These giants have all teamed up to provide college football bowl games in full-length broadcast to mobiles through Verizon’s V CAST Mobile TV. They are covering 24 bowl games this season.