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 [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] DVEO, the broadcast division of CMI, has announced that its latest product, a compact test modulator for emulating mobile digital TV signals, is now shipping. DVEO will demonstrate the eYeCatcher ATSC M/H at the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show in Las Vegas, April 12-15, at Booth SU2709. Designed for use in development labs and for technology demonstration purposes, DVEO’s eYe Catcher ATSC M/H is a portable frequency agile modulator with IP, ASI, or SMPTE 310M input and ATSC M/H output. It delivers real time or stored video to cell phones, PDAs, handhelds, and [...] On January 8, 2010, thanks to the Open Mobile Video Coalition’s new ATSC Mobile DTV Standard, TV stations across the U.S. announced that they will start Mobile DTV Broadcasting this [...] In April, 30 television stations in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle and Washington will begin broadcasting a signal that will allow a new class of mobile devices to show the stations’ programming, in a move that is a “game changer” for local broadcasters, according to Dennis Wharton of the National Association of Broadcasters. [...] Who has time to sit on the couch and watch TV anymore? In the last 10 years, broadcasters have lost 25 percent of their audience. So to win back some viewers, the industry has a plan to grab their attention while they are on the [...] |
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