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 [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] Armed with a new industry standard in hand—quite literally, in the case of future devices—and laying claim to some of the best real estate available at the NAB Show this month, ATSC Mobile DTV proponents are counting on all the stars aligning in Las Vegas for the launch of what some see as a “game-changer” for the broadcast industry. Situated in the heart of the Grand Lobby of the LVCC at NAB (April 12-15), the Mobile DTV Marketplace will demo a wide array of consumer devices rolling out in the near future. The marketplace is being sponsored by a quartet of heavy hitters: the Advanced Television Systems Committee, the Consumer Electronics Association, the Open Mobile Video Coalition, and [...] In a press release Thursday the On Demand Group and The Walt Disney Company UK announced a deal to provide subscribers with on-demand access to entire episodes of hit television shows via 3 UK’s first ever mobile TV subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service. Under the terms of the deal Disney will offer hundreds of episodes to [...] The FCC voted Tuesday to approve a two-page joint statement on broadband, but did not vote on the broadband plan in its entirety. The new broadband plan could have a deep impact on the future of MDTV as the FCC looks to utilize the same airwaves broadcast television currently uses to offer broadband internet. A future auction of those frequencies could occur with television stations having the option to auction their [...] The A/153 ATSC Mobile Digital Television (DTV) Standard, adopted in October, defines the technical specifications necessary for broadcasters to provide new services to mobile and handheld devices using their DTV [...] Coda Research Consultancy Ltd. has released a new 34 page report thoroughly assessing the mobile TV and video market and behaviour in the US. This report includes revenue and user projections to 2015, in-depth analysis of challenges and opportunities, and recommendations throughout. [...] Almost three years after Google, Inc. (GOOG) announced a television advertising partnership with Dish Network, something fruitful may soon be afoot. The world’s largest internet advertising company wants to integrate its Android mobile operating system into Dish equipment so that Dish subscribers can view satellite television programming right next to YouTube web-based video in one neat experience. [...] Chrysler is set to begin channeling live, mobile TV into Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and Ram vehicles. The company will showcase its new technology in a Ram 2500 at the 2010 Dallas Auto Show. Chrysler will become the first automaker in the United States to offer live, mobile TV to consumers in over 100 U.S. metropolitan areas. The system offers something for everyone: college and professional sports, breaking news, children’s shows, primetime sitcoms, reality TV and daytime [...] |
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