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[ContentSutra :: Main Page] Says Sanjai Kohli, co-founder of Truespan Semiconductor Technologies, a California-based firm which is also working on a chipset for receiving mobile video at its development centre in Bangalore, "Today, what comes on your mobile phones are replays - live TV content is not possible because of the bandwidth requirements. Images jump from one frame to another but once DVB-H comes into play, the user experience is going to be greatly enhanced." That's going to change once DVB-H comes.

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http://www.moconews.net  MocoNews.net: mobile content news: Qualcomm is at CTIA trying to convince telcos to use its products (much like everybody else, really), and should be especially keen to promote its “Platinum Multicast” technology, which “provides an extremely cost-effective method for wireless operators to deliver a multitude of video and audio channels to a large subscriber population” at three times the capacity of its previous incarnation Gold Multicast, according to the press release. This technology works hand-in-hand with Qualcomm’s MediaFLO to bring interactive broadcast TV to mobile phones. Qualcomm is gearing up for another battle with Europe (like the one between CDMA and GSM) with most European companies siding with a different standard for mobile TV - DVB-H.

http://www.moconews.net  MocoNews.net: mobile content news: — Live TV on Your Cellphone: On Crown Castle’s ambitions: “One of the big advantages is that, because it uses terrestrial transmission, we can carry local content in the same way as TV stations and offer different local services in different markets,” says Crown Castle Mobile Media President Michael Schueppert. “We’ll want to work with local broadcasters because they do the best job with local news, weather and sports.”

morph: Mobile Media Memory Dump: He explained that broadcasting video took 100 times the bandwidth of sound, but people were certainly not willing to pay 100 times the price for it, so using bandwidth to measure cost wasn't necessarily a good thing. He made his business work through a one-way architecture, VAS (Value Added Service), and unfortunately, spoke of stand-alone networks, unicast, multicast, clipcaches, using existing UHF towers and DVBH air interfaces. He might as well have been speaking in French.

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