LAS VEGAS, April 13 /PRNewswire/ — Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Fox, Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., ION Television, Media General Inc., Meredith Corp., NBC, Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. and Raycom Media today announced plans to form a standalone joint venture to develop a new national mobile content service. Utilizing existing broadcast spectrum, [...]
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FLO TV has announced a time-shifting DVR function to allow users to save their favorite programs and watch them at a later date. While DVR is a nice feature it will start to make you ask the question why you are paying for that monthly subscription when you could watch the same programs and buy them individually on iTunes, downloading to your iPad, iPod or iPhone and pay only for the content you really [...] Harris Corporation, an IT and communications company, has unveiled Scalable Full-Channel Mobile Mode, a confusingly named mobile TV product jointly developed with LG Electronics USA, FierceMobileContent [...] PCWorld’s John R. Quain takes a look at current MDTV ATSC-M/H gadgets and gives you a quick rundown on LG Digital Television / DVD Player, LG KB770 Smartphone, and the Valups Mobile DTV Wifi receiver. Despite all the hype about televisions’ being turned off in droves in favor of Hulu and YouTube, live TV remains easily [...] DiBcom, the market leader in dedicated components for mobile TV reception, will be demonstrating its Octopus programmable platform at the NAB Show, which runs from 12 to 15 April in Las Vegas. As the United States launches into a new mobile television venture with the ATSC M/H standard, a “mobile” derivative of the DTT standard currently used in North America (ATSC), operators face the question of the business model, just as they have with DVB-H in Europe. DiBcom has used its experience to develop a flexible platform, called Octopus, which enables manufacturers to enter the field at reduced [...] Paris, France/Nevada City, Calif. March 23, 2010 – WGBH, the public broadcaster in Boston, Mass and the leading producer for PBS, has installed a new Thomson mobile video transmission system from Grass Valley™, based on the ATSC A/153 standard. WGBH’s mobile video service was launched in late 2009 with additional channels added in 2010. In addition [...] As the Federal Communications Commission begins it’s long process of creating regulations out of the national broadband plan, the battle of using the current broadcast spectrum is heating up and lines are being drawn. At an FCC meeting on April 21 several of the first policies and rules will be announced and the broadcast world is taking notice. Amont the first recommendations offered to Congress the FCC is starting with USF reform, mobile data roaming, set-top-box reform and cybersecurity. The agency plans to implement more than 40 policy proposals from its [...] |
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