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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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 [...] Live, mobile TV is coming to the Big Apple. Mopar is channeling live, mobile TV into Chrysler, Jeep®, Dodge and Ram vehicles. The company will showcase its new technology at the 2010 New York International Auto Show. Chrysler Group LLC is the first automaker in the United States to offer live, mobile TV to consumers. The system offers something for everyone: college and professional sports, breaking news, children’s shows, primetime sitcoms, reality TV and daytime [...] Mobile Digital Television, the latest development in over-the-air TV broadcasting, is the ideal method for reaching millions of viewers at once with its native “one to many” delivery method that efficiently uses the radiofrequency spectrum. The Open Mobile Video Coalition, which represents nearly 900 broadcast TV stations, today called newly-emerging Mobile DTV a critical ingredient to insure that all Americans can quickly and easily receive news and information, emergency alerts, and their favorite broadcast TV [...] Envivio Inc. today introduced Envivio 4Caster™ C42 for Mobile Broadcast, a new generation of video encoder/transcoder for delivering Mobile TV broadcast services in markets around the world. Combining the processing power of the latest Intel multi-core server processors with Envivio’s newest high-efficiency, high-quality Extreme™ video codec, 4Caster C42 for Mobile Broadcast provides full support for the world’s most important mobile TV broadcast standards including ATSC-M/H for Mobile DTV, CMMB, DVB-H and [...] The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today announced successful completion of its second “ATSC Mobile DTV PlugFest.” CEA PlugFest is a technology event that allows participating companies to test interoperability of their devices. More than three dozen engineers from around the world participated in PlugFest2, which focused on testing the recently approved ATSC A/153 Mobile DTV standard. ATSC Mobile DTV makes local, digital broadcast TV portable for consumers to watch on the [...] Paris, France/Nevada City, Calif. March, 2 2010 – With pressure on broadcasters to deliver more services and greatly improve energy efficiency, Grass Valley™ is launching new functionality for its video compression and TV transmission equipment at NAB 2010. The innovations support HD, 3D, green technologies and mobile [...] SAN DIEGO, March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — FLO TV Incorporated, the company that innovated the mobile broadcast TV category, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), today announced it has expanded its partnership with Turner Broadcasting to bring consumers CNN Mobile, a channel that includes programming from CNN/US, CNN International and HLN, as well as CNN.com content. The channel will be available on the FLO TV™ Personal Television and FLO TV Auto Entertainment platforms, in addition to its current availability as part of AT&T Mobile [...] ESPN and Sprint (NYSE: S) are teaming up to give Sprint customers the ultimate sports experience – in the palm of their hands – with ESPN Mobile TV available on Sprint TV ® . Beginning today, ESPN Mobile TV will offer Sprint consumers unparalleled live sports programming and entertainment from ESPN via Sprint handheld [...] |
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