Mobile DTV Alliance Pushes for Open Standards for Mobile TV
The Mobile DTV Alliance is an open industry consortium that focuses on promoting the best practices and open standards to deliver premium-quality broadcast television to mobile devices and accelerate DVB-H development and deployment in North America. The alliance includes leading companies from across the mobile business system and entertainment value chain. Members of the Mobile DTV Alliance include Motorola, Modeo, Intel, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Nokia and PacketVideo Corp.
DVB-H is an open industry standard that has become the predominant technology used to deploy mobile TV services around the world. DVB-H has over 100 companies developing or deploying services, components and devices based on the standard. Through this large ecosystem, DVB-H has a competitive environment which fosters lower costs and spurs innovation.
The DVB-H standard delivers rapid, cost-effective deployments by leveraging existing infrastructure in North America. In addition, DVB-H provides a living room TV viewing experience in the palm of your hand with an average 1.5 second channel changing time readily achievable and demonstrable with the existing standard, 30+ channels of live TV programming, audio content and pod casts, a long battery life of 3.5+ hours and up to 30 frames per second delivery speed.
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