Tuesday, April 17, 2007
TV Broadcasters Create Mobile TV Alliance
Posted by Janak Parekh in "NEWS" @ 08:45 PM
"Rather than ceding control of the mobile TV market to the nation’s wireless carriers, nine U.S. television broadcast groups have formed an industry alliance called the Open Mobile Video Coalition to speed the development of a mobile variant for digital broadcast TV. The coalition’s aim is to realize the 'full potential' of digital broadcast television spectrum in the United States. The spectrum is currently used for stationary TVs, and the current technology does not lend itself to mobile applications. The coalition hopes to rally support around one of the recently announced technologies that will allow local digital TV broadcasters to beam their offerings to portable devices like cellphones... So far, no cellphones have been announced that support the new technologies."
The bold is mine; the broadcast groups are going to discover what all of us have known for all along: US wireless carriers are control freaks, and they don't like any end-runs around their closed ecosystems. Let's see if one behemoth can force another to open up. Grab the popcorn and let's see what happens. :treadmill:
The bold is mine; the broadcast groups are going to discover what all of us have known for all along: US wireless carriers are control freaks, and they don't like any end-runs around their closed ecosystems. Let's see if one behemoth can force another to open up. Grab the popcorn and let's see what happens. :treadmill:
