[opendtv] Re: "Rock-bottom" mobile TV companies looking up
- From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:27:41 -0500
Their focus is not to add satellite reception to mobile phones. It is to
offer ubiquitous mobile TV reception. A hybrid system like XMRadio or Sirius
but concentrating on TV. The satellite portion offers reception in rural
areas where building out a terrestrial network is expensive. If they also
have hybrid receivers in cell phones that is just part of the market not the
target. In car and larger screen sizes on mobile/portable devices is the
target.
Since they will have more spectrum than an XMRadio or Sirius and since they
can easily add radio to the mix such ventures are serious threats to
satellite radio.
Bob Miller
On Feb 18, 2008 4:53 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand why adding satellite TV reception to mobile
> phones will make hand-held TV any more attractive to consumers. Unless,
> that is, it was DVB-H reception problems that prevented it from being
> popular in the first place.
>
> Was that the issue with DVB-H? All the articles I read about DVB-H
> trials seemed to indicate that reception was good.
>
> Bert
>
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> "Rock-bottom" mobile TV companies looking up
>
> Junko Yoshida
> (02/15/2008 7:01 AM EST)
> URL: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206504370
>
> BARCELONA, Spain - Calling 2007 "a rock-bottom year" for mobile TV,
> Yannick Levy, CEO at DiBcom, said he is hoping that things will start to
> get a little better this year.
>
> Levy, speaking at the Mobile World Congress here this week, took comfort
> in knowing that his company's turbulent experience with the mobile TV
> market appears to be following the "hype curve", a well-known theory
> published by the Gartner group a few years ago.
>
> But then, where is the good news? What could possibly pull companies
> like DiBcom up from the bottom of the hype curve?
>
> For DiBcom, the answer is two Craig McCaw-backed companies: Clearwire
> Corp. and ICO Global Communications, who have teamed up for a new mobile
> TV trial, scheduled to start next month, by using satellites to
> broadcast directly to mobile devices in the United States.
>
> The satellite-based mobile TV technology in question is called DVB-SH
> (Digital Video Broadcasting from Satellite to Handhelds), designed to
> complement DVB-H in higher frequency bands, such as the S-band.
>
> The technology standard, approved as the DVB Group's standard a year
> ago, was developed to offer hybrid satellite/terrestrial Mobile TV
> solutions for nationwide coverage on mobile phones, portable and
> vehicular devices, according to DiBcom.
>
> And for Sinao Mobile Silicon, another leading mobile TV chip vendor, the
> answer is the Beijing Olympics.
>
> China is planning to launch mobile TV, coinciding with the event. The
> new service is based on a Chinese government-picked standard called
> China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB). CMMB is based on homegrown
> technology known as STiMi (short for satellite and terrestrial
> interactive multiservice infrastructure).
>
> Siano's CEO Alon Ironi this week said his company is preparing to launch
> a STiMi-based chip "around May."
>
> Two months ago, Siano announced in China that it has signed a
> collaboration agreement with CMB Satellite, the Hong Kong based
> affiliate of EchoStar Communications Corporation, and Huaqi, a
> manufacturer of consumer multimedia products in China branded "aigo" to
> provide solutions for China's up-coming mobile TV service.
>
> As both DVB-SH and STiMi target hybrid satellite/terrestrial mobile TV
> services, the two specs are said to be similar. While Siano is also
> planning to roll out DVB-SH solutions, DiBcom also noted its plans for
> China's STiMi.
>
> While DiBcom and Siano are top two DVB-H chip suppliers designed into
> mobile TV capable handsets sold in Italy, they are both casting much
> broader nets for their potential market.
>
> For DiBcom, this is the in-car business. Although "the U.S. market has
> not even realized the benefits of mobile TV", Levy said they will
> understand the value of connecting TV to GPS screen in a car, for
> example. "Or, using TV in a car for tailgating parties before football
> games," he said.
>
> Indeed, ICO reportedly said that with mobile TV, it is not looking to
> compete in the mobile phone market, at least initially. The company
> believes that there will be a real demand for the seven- or eight-inch
> screen in a vehicle.
>
> Siano's next big thing, it hopes, is the Intel Corp- promoted Mobile
> Internet Device. Intel has picked Siano's mobile TV chip as a part of
> the MID reference design.
>
> Ironi said, "Until now, the embedded systems and PCs have lived in two
> separate spaces." But with MID, if successful, the line between the two
> will blur. "For us, that means a new revenue stream, he added.
>
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