Mobile Digital TV News

Vimicro Announces Strategic Development Agreement with CSMBC for CMMB Mobile TV

Digital TV News — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:13:31 +0000

Vimicro (Nasdaq: VIMC) has announced a strategic development partnership with China Satellite Mobile Broadcasting Corporation (CSMBC) to advance the development of mobile TV under the China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB) standard.

South Africa approves temporary Mobile TV licence

Digital TV News — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:20:38 +0000

After the Cabinet meeting on November 4, 2009, the South African government issued a statement to say that the proposal to issue a temporary Mobile Television Broadcasting Licence expiring just after the World Cup Finals had been approved.

Best Buy Partners with Sonic for Digital Content Delivery on Connected CE Devices

Digital TV News — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:30:31 +0000

Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) and Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC) are partnering on a new offering for Best Buy's line-up of digital entertainment products. The new on-demand movie and entertainment service will be powered by Sonic's Roxio CinemaNow™.

Q2-09 was a Record-Setting Mobile TV Quarter

Digital TV News — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:30:14 +0000

Issue No. 10 of the quarterly TeleAnalytics Mobile TV Tracking Service (TMTS) quantitatively substantiates the position taken back in Q3-08 that the worldwide Mobile TV adoption/sales would not be much upset by the financial crisis.

Emirates Mobile TV consortium granted DVB-H licence for the UAE

Digital TV News — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:00:21 +0000

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has agreed to grant a license to the Emirates Mobile Television Corporation consortium to provide DVB-H mobile TV broadcasting services for 10 years in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

ISDB broadcasting in Argentina to begin in 2 months

Digital TV News — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:40:57 +0000

Argentina will begin the first tests of its ISDB-based Sistema de TV Digital Terrestre digital TV service in the next two months, with the goal of covering about 400 cities and towns by 2011.

SiTune Unveils Mobile DVB-T Demodulator Exceeding MBRAI Specification

Digital TV News — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:36:50 +0000

SiTune has announced a state of the art and revolutionary mobile DVB-T demodulator IC. STN-10D3000 is a highly integrated mobile DVB-T demodulator that exceeds MBRAI performance specification with excellent Doppler performance.

GCT Semiconductor Develops Single-Chip T-DMB Receiver with Integrated DC/DC Converter

Digital TV News — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:32:03 +0000

GCT® Semiconductor has announced its mobile TV receiver, GDM7024, a high performance single-chip receiver with built-in DC/DC converter, specifically developed for the T-DMB market in Korea.

Two mobile TV licences for Taiwan in 2010

Digital TV News — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:10:50 +0000

The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) in Taiwan is planning to offer two national mobile TV operating licences for the country in 2010. The government will remain neutral on the standard to be used for the broadcasting.

Samsung Develops World’s First Single Chip for ATSC Mobile Digital TV

Digital TV News — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:00:43 +0000

Samsung Electronics (Seoul: 005930) has announced that it has successfully developed the world’s first single chip compatible with the newly approved North American mobile digital TV broadcasting standard.

ATSC Adopts Mobile Digital TV Standard

Digital TV News — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:57:25 +0000

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has announced the approval of A/153 ATSC Mobile DTV Standard. The ballot, tallied at midnight Oct. 15, was approved with overwhelming support by the full ATSC membership.

Vishay announces Small-Form-Factor, Multilayer Ceramic Chip Antennas for Mobile Devices

Digital TV News — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:00:57 +0000

Vishay Intertechnology (NYSE: VSH) has announced the industry’s first high-performance multilayer ceramic chip antennas for mobile devices to cover the entire UHF band from 470 MHz to 860 MHz.

DNA to offer DVB-H mobile TV in Finland

Digital TV News — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:50:32 +0000

Finland's DNA has launched DVB-H mobile TV using the network operated by Digita. The service is starting by offering all viewers a free trial period.

MaxLinear Introduces Hybrid Digital/Analog Tuner for TV Applications

Digital TV News — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:20:33 +0000

MaxLinear has announced the MxL301RF, a new low-power hybrid digital/analog silicon tuner for the next generation of small and large screen television applications.

weComm to power miniV mobile TV service in China

Digital TV News — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:00:33 +0000

miniV.tv, the first commercially available interactive mobile video service in China, has been set up to deliver Linear TV streams, Lottery and VOD services through mobile handsets. weComm is providing the applications software platform.

FLO TV Unveils its New Digital Handheld Television

Digital TV News — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:20:36 +0000

FLO TV (Nasdaq: QCOM) has unveiled the FLO TV Personal Television - an entirely new dedicated device that will let TV lovers watch news, live sports, children's programming and entertainment on a dedicated device for mobile TV viewing.

Claro Launches 3G Mobile TV Service in Dominican Republic

Digital TV News — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:40:36 +0000

ROK Entertainment and Claro Dominican Republic (Mexico:AMXL) have announced the launch of Ideas TV, a streamed, live and pre-recorded mobile TV subscription service, powered by ROK’s over-the-air video-streaming technologies.

Leading Companies Form Mobile High-Definition Interface Working Group

Digital TV News — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:20:07 +0000

Nokia (NYSE:NOK), Samsung (KSE:005930), Silicon Image (NASDAQ:SIMG), Sony (NYSE:SNE) and Toshiba (TSE:6502) have set up a working group to create an A/V interface standard for connection of mobile and portable devices to HD TVs and displays.

CSMBC developing CMMB mobile TV browser

Digital TV News — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:10:30 +0000

SHANGHAI -- China Satellite Mobile Broadcasting Corp. (CSMBC), the national operator of China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB) mobile TV, is developing a mobile browser specifically designed for CMMB mobile TV.

SiTune Unveils New Series of Digital and Universal CMOS TV Tuners

Digital TV News — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:30:22 +0000

SiTune has announced its STN-10T2000 and STN-25T2000, respectively ZERO-IF and LOW-IF Tuners, that exceed A/74 performance specification for ATSC-MH while supporting other digital/analog terrestrial and Mobile TV standards requirements.

Samsung Announces New Single-Chip Front-End Receiver

Digital TV News — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:00:31 +0000

Samsung Electronics has unveiled the industry’s first 65 nanometer (nm) channel decoder RF system-on-chip (SoC), the S3C4F71, targeted specifically at China’s CMMB mobile TV broadcasting market.

ArcSoft PowerMobia® Mobile Broadcast TV Demonstrated at Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum

Digital TV News — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:20:46 +0000

ArcSoft has announced that its mobile TV solution, PowerMobia® Mobile Broadcast TV is demonstrated at the sixth annual Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum. PowerMobia® is offered as an application on Android and Windows Mobile platforms.

China Digital TV Selected to Provide CA For China’s Mobile TV

Digital TV News — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:30:42 +0000

China Digital TV Holding (NYSE: STV) has announced that it had been selected by China Satellite Mobile Broadcasting Corporation (CSM), a company under China's SARFT, to provide CA systems to mobile TV networks throughout China.

ULDAGE to package MPEG LA patents with ARIB 1-seg patent licence in Japan

Digital TV News — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:06:09 +0000

MPEG LA and ULDAGE have announced a cooperation under which ULDAGE will offer MPEG LA's MPEG-2 Systems License along with ULDAGE’s ARIB license to companies based in Japan that sell mobile TV handsets for One-Seg mobile terrestrial broadcasting.

DVB at IBC 2009

Digital TV News — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:20:07 +0000

DVB-T2 takes pride of place on this year’s DVB stand. Also on show is a local transmission utilising the DVB-SH standard. Other DVB technologies highlighted include DVB-C2, the second generation cable transmission system.

Bluestreak Unveils 3D Flash® User Experiences for STBs and Mobiles

Digital TV News — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:57:23 +0000

Bluestreak Technology has unveiled support for new 3D Flash user experiences that offer consumers visually dynamic ways to search for and discover multimedia content and web services on their television set-top boxes and mobile devices.

ViXS® SoC Provide Mobile Phone Video Support in Sharp Blu-Ray PVR/Recorders

Digital TV News — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:10:13 +0000

ViXS Systems has announced that Sharp's latest Blu-Ray Disc (BD) PVR/recorder products have taken advantage of the video processing flexibility of the XCode® 3000 series to enable broadcast video conversion for mobile phone support.

Cloakware Launches Comprehensive OMA Digital Rights Management Solution

Digital TV News — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:30:59 +0000

Cloakware (JSE: NPN) has announced a new Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)-compliant Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution for the secure delivery of digital content across the popular Android open source platform.

Analog Devices Unveils Multi-Standard Terrestrial Mobile TV RF Tuners

Digital TV News — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:07:53 +0000

Analog Devices (NYSE:ADI) has extended its mobile television RF product family. Compatible with global terrestrial mobile TV standards, ADI’s ADMTV803 and ADMTV804 RF tuners consume 60% less power and are 50% smaller than competing tuners.

GSMA Endorses Integrated Mobile Broadcast (IMB), a New 3GPP Standard

Digital TV News — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:10:10 +0000

The GSMA has announced that it has endorsed a new 3GPP standard, Integrated Mobile Broadcast (IMB), that will allow its members to accelerate the adoption of mobile data and broadcast services worldwide.