The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) says that mobile DTV is on track to reach two-thirds of U.S. households by early 2012, based on a survey it conducted among its member stations. Some 96 stations are now on the air with a mobile DTV signal (most simulcasting their linear TV channel) and that number is [...]
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Tom Wheeler is no stranger to the video world. Prior to joining investment firm Core Capital in 2005 as a managing director, he racked up nearly three decades of working in the telecom policy and business-development space. Wheeler founded multiple companies offering cable, wireless and video communications services; and he served as president of the [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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