Less than one year after its debut for the iPhone and iPod touch, more than 1 million users have downloaded the DirecTV DVR Scheduler app. The app is now available on Android devices and the Palm Pre and Pixi.

Widevine and Qtv have announced that they will partner to bring Widevine's video optimisation and multiplatform Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology to the Qtv Internet TV Media Player for the television, mobile phone and personal computer. The Qtv Internet TV Media Player gives consumers the unique ability to access and play both personal and Internet-based […]

According to the research report “Global Mobile TV Forecast to 2013” by RNCOS, the number of mobile TV subscribers are projected to grow at a CAGR of over 45 per cent between 2009 and 2013 to reach around 450 Million by end-2013. The study predicts that Asia-Pacific region will dominate the global mobile TV market, […]

ST-Ericsson, a global expert in wireless semiconductors and platforms, has launched a family of single-chip 1080p high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) transmitters to enable streaming of HD multimedia content from mobile devices to TVs. Consumers will now be able to easily connect their mobile devices to digital as well as old, analogue televisions to playback HD […]

China Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), China’s national operator of CMMB mobile TV, CBC general manager Sun Chaohui revealed that CBC and China Mobile will officially launch mobile phone TV service in early February. CBC and China Mobile signed an agreement to cooperate by promoting CMMB service on TD-SCDMA handsets in May of last year. Although CMMB-enabled […]

The Indian government has accepted the recommendations made by telecom regulator TRAI to hold a bidding process for issuing licences for offering mobile TV services. It has also been decided to allow operators to decide on the technology to be deployed for offering the service. “The methodology for grant of licence through closed tender system […]

Cox Communications has announced the successful completion of voice calling and HD video streaming over wireless networks using 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. Cox’s 4G technology and service trials utilise the AWS and 700 MHz spectrum that it acquired at Federal Communication Commission auctions in 2006 and 2008. Cox spent over $550 million for […]

The German state media office will decide by mid-March if mobile TV via the DVB-H standard gets a second chance. An important requirement for a possible re-tender of a 10-year licence is that interested parties confirm their interest in deploying DVB-H to the approval and oversight commission of the media offices (ZAK) before the end […]

Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) plans to issue Taiwan’s first two mobile TV licences by the end of 2010, one to operate on Channel 35 (596-602MHz) and the other on Channel 36 (602-608MHz). The two licensees will be allowed to choose a mobile TV standard between the Qualcomm's MediaFLO and DVB-H. NCC issued five trial […]

Media Excel, a provider of transcoding solutions for MobileTV and WebTV, is expanding its longstanding relationship with Texas Instruments (TI) and collaborating on a number of initiatives designed to bring high-density, scalable video over IP compression solutions for network-based transcoding to market. The collaboration will build on TI's expanding portfolio of next-generation multicore DSPs and […]