Mobile TV's latest entries: A-VSB and MPH

摘要

The battle for supremacy in the mobile TV technology race continues to shift as vendors create yet another mobile TV standard. The latest mobile TV technology on the block is aimed at markets that have adopted the US-developed ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) digital TV standard for terrestrial broadcasters. There are two main ATSC-based mobile technologies in contention, both from Korean vendors: Samsung Electronics' Advanced VSB (A-VSB), which debuted at the start of this year, and MPH (Mobile Pedestrian Handheld) from LG Electronics, its US research subsidiary Zenith Electronics and Harris Corporation, which launched last month.