The International Broadcast Conference (IBC) 2008 indicate that consumers could dump carriers like Verizon and AT&T in Europe where they have a decent (DVB-T) digital television standard.
A host of mobile TV chip companies demonstrated devices that are designed to turn popular consumer devices such as the Apple’s iPod, Sony’s PlayStation 3 and portable GPS navigation units into terrestrial digital TV receivers.
Azzedine Boubguira, vice president of marketing and business development at DiBcom, showed off at his company’s booth a prototype of PacketVideo-created small mobile broadcast receiver called Telly.
Telly can slip in a shirt pocket and wirelessly transmit digital TV broadcast programs to any device equipped with a WiFi connection.
The iPod comes with WiFi capability, but without Telly, it features no mobile TV capabilities. DiBcom also demonstrated Sony’s new DTV receiver accessory for PlayStation 3.
DiBcom says the launch of Mobile TV in the UK will probably occur in 2009. In the meantime, you can already watch programs on portable (Freeview) Digital TV receivers using a USB TV dongle connected to a laptop.
Will DVB-T to kill DVB-H? Dibcom says ‘it ain’t necessarily so’. With its free-to-air DVB-T-based digital terrestrial TV broadcast signals already available, cellular operators can offer DVB-T-enabled mobile phones as an entry-level model.
Then, they can market DVB-H as an add-on for better indoor reception and lower power consumption, explained DiBcom’s Boubguira. DiBcom is a chip vendor who pioneered automotive DVB-T market, and also supplies DVB-H TV tuner/demodulation chips.
U.S., Canada and Mexico are out of luck since the ATSC gang mandated that all royalties of their ghost-prone 8-VSB DTV signal go to them.
NextWave Wireless plans to give WiMAX operators the ability to deliver mobile TV and digital audio over their networks. Their MXtv technology is compatible with the 802.16e standard. NextWave also has a joint development agreement with Huawei to integrate MXtv into their WiMAX products.
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