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Mobile TV Standards On the Horizon?
Mobile handset firm Nokia recently agreed to work with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on standards for mobile television. The standards work will most likely revolve around its DVB-H technology and are expected to ameliorate fragmentation of technologies—a hindrance thus far to mobile operators wanting to tap into the potentially lucrative market.
While European industry players favor the home-grown DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast - Handheld) standard for their mobile phones, there are competing technologies, including DMB and MediaFlo. Nokia and Samsung plan to make their DVB-H mobiles work with the same standards as the Nokia network services system.
They would work on using the OMA BCAST standard for mobile operators.
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