Thursday 19 February 2009

Hola DVB-H, Hasta la vista DVB-H

Hola DVB-H
Now that the EEC has officially endorsed DVB-H as the mobile TV technology for Europe, it looks like we will soon all be watching terrestrial and satellite TV on our mobile phones. Nokia is ahead of the game as the Nokia N96 and Nokia N97 are both DVB-H ready.

Hasta la vista DVB-H
The majority of new handsets (not the I-Phone) are able to stream Active X clips directly form the internet and have 3G mobile technology that allows download speeds of up to 2.4Mbps and 3.5G standard called HSDPA that boosts speeds to as fast as 7.2 Mbps, this together with telecommunications companies providing media content over the internet such as the BBC with the BBC I-Player and service providers such as T Mobile offering unlimited internet access for a pittance, I believe that DVB-H has already been superseded before it even gets released. This might explain why there has been so little interest in this technology by the big players.