Advanced Television

Mobile

3.4% of Olympics viewers use CMMB devices

The survey found that the 98.1 per cent of individuals watched or listened to the ceremony. Of these, 97.7 per cent viewed the ceremony on television, while 13.7 per cent viewed the ceremony online, 11.4 per cent listened to it on the radio, and 6.4 per cent watched on televisions in public transit systems. The […]

August 15, 2008

Brazil's TVA to launch IPTV, mobile TV services

Brazilian pay-TV operator TVA, in partnership with Spain's Telefónica, is investing BRL 123 million (E52 million) for the launch of an IPTV service via fibre optic cable, which is currently being tested in the Jardins area of São Paulo. Launching in 2009, the IPTV service would integrate TV, video and the internet, with subscribers being […]

August 14, 2008

Microsoft’s Zune goes to Hollywood

Although Microsoft has denied that Zune would expand into communications in a similar manner to the iPhone, the company admitted that it was in an “exploratory phase” regarding supplementing the TV content it already licenses from studios with Zune-only material. Zune is looking for non-conventional programming that can capitalise on the device’s social networking platform, […]

August 14, 2008

Siano raises $17.5m for mobile TV expansion

Eldad Tamir, co-founder and General Partner at DFJ-Tamir Fishman Ventures, said the firm had been keeping a constant eye out for noteworthy investment opportunities. "We've been observing the mobile TV market and its ever-rising potential for some time now." “The consumer market is now starting to fulfil the vision that gave birth to Siano back […]

August 14, 2008

PacketVision, UDcast team for targeted mobile TV ads

The technology showcase will include an example of a geographically targeted advertising campaign, showing how content can be delivered to mobile TV users over standard DVB-H networks. The showcase also aims to highlight the symbiotic relationship between mobile TV and targeted advertising: the latter brings revenue to mobile TV, which in turn, provides the targetable […]

August 14, 2008

Vodafone, MTV launch Soundbites

The service will be available on TV, via a website (http://www.mtv-vodafonesoundbites.com) and on mobile (wap.mtv-vodafonesoundbites.com) as a series of twenty one, three minute shows from early August. The website and mobile service will carry additional footage, as well as editorial and news elements. Vodafone Soundbites will be available in seven languages on MTV in Germany, […]

August 12, 2008

DVB-H in Austrian roll-out

The new regions will now also be able to receive 15 TV programs as well as five radio programmes. The service line-up includes the four made-for-mobile TV channels LAOLA1.tv, LALA TV, Krone TV and Red Bull TV, but also ORF1, ORF2, ATV, Puls4, Pro7 Austria, RTL, Sat1 Österreich, VOX, RTL2, N24 and SUPER RTL as […]

August 12, 2008

South Africa mobile TV policy U-turn

If there had been only one network provider, which was expected to be Sentech, all companies wishing to enter the market would have been forced to go through that company. The news will be welcomed by companies such as pay-TV provider MultiChoice, which has plans to have its mobile TV service available before the 2010 […]

August 12, 2008

O2 TV claims 100,000 customers

Jan Karas, Director of Marketing for the Consumer Segment, Telefónica O2 said that thanks to its vast selection of channels and several above-standard functions, such as TV Archive and Videotéka, O2TV offered something for everyone. “Its popularity continues to grow and now, as the switch from analogue to digital broadcasting is accelerating, O2TV is one […]

August 8, 2008