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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
