Motion pictures

摘要

Mobile broadcast has been slow to take off, and mobile operators are increasingly questioning whether the technology will be needed. Farah Jifri examines the issues. Mobile TV is has been a major topic of debate for a while now, much of it generated by broadcast technology standards: DVB-H/DVB-SH versus MediaFLO or DMB. We have long been led to believe that broadcast technologies are essential to getting any mass-market mobile TV business off the ground, the belief being that non-broadcast technologies would not be able to cope with the large bandwidth requirements or deliver the high quality images that end users demanded.