This service is no longer "just mobile television" but the broadcaster will deliver a wide range of services to the user: radio, podcasts, digital newspapers, TV catch-up, etc.. available on smartphones and tablets. All delivered through the broadcast airwaves!
The consumer trial will involve several company leaders in their domain: Archos, Airwave, Dibcom, Expway and Immanens. The consumer trial will take place this fall.
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NTT Docomo has announced the launch of the first two devices to support Nottv, a new mobile TV standard due to start broadcasting in Japan on April 1st. The Sharp Aquos SH-06D is a dual-core smartphone running Android 2.3, with a 4.5-inch 720p 3D display and an 8-megapixel camera, and the NEC Casio Medias Tab N-06D is an LTE-ready Android tablet with a 7-inch 1280 x 800 display. .. In addition to the three live stations, Nottv offers "clipcasting" which sends media such as ebooks, applications, and video clips directly to devices without using Docomo's cellular network. Smartphones and tablets supporting the service will be able to share live broadcasts with TVs and other large-screen devices via Wi-Fi.
Docomo's New Android Devices Support NOTTV DigInfo TV - http://diginfo.tv 16/2/2012 NTT DOCOMO, mmbi NOTTV, MEDIAS TAB N-06D, AQUOS PHONE SH-06D... Lets meet at MWC! claude.seyrat@expway.com [Ed. Note - Expway inside :)]
Mobile operators might as well give in and work with web companies when it comes to delivering services via mobile broadband. That’s the conclusion of the latest report out from Allot Communications, a company that aims to sell software and gear to companies like Verizon and AT&T. Allot’s latest mobile traffic report indicates that the big web players such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Skype are still racking up gains, while newcomers offering similar services to operators are also on the rise.
It’s a quiet day in Seattle when without warning an earthquake somewhere in the Pacific Ocean generates a tsunami aimed squarely at the city’s downtown. Massive injuries and death are averted, however, thanks to the initial early warning and continuous updates area residents receive via OTA television transmission of warnings and rich media with their Mobile Emergency Alert System (M-EAS)-enabled Mobile-DTV handsets.
It may seem a bit odd to see tech industry groups like the CTIA and CEA praising the passage of the Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011 by Congress, but that rather mundane-sounding bill has provisions attached to it that both groups and others have been pushing for years to happen. In an effort to cover the cost of the payroll tax extension, the bill also sets aside a large block of so-called unlicensed spectrum for auction, which is expected to bring in upwards of $25 billion.
Barry Diller, who created the Fox television network almost 30 years ago, now wants to free it and other networks from the chains of what he calls the “closed cable-broadcast-satellite circle. On Tuesday, at the Manhattan headquarters of his company, IAC/InterActiveCorp, he introduced Aereo, an Internet television service that he said “pries over-the-air broadcast television out of that closed system.” Aereo is one of the most ambitious attempts to date to distribute television over the Internet, potentially posing a new threat to the cable and satellite distributors that control a vast majority of TV viewing in the United States. IAC led a $20.5 million round of financing for Aereo, and Mr. Diller is joining the start-up’s board. Ed Note - Waiting for the legal action from broadcasters: no one can make money out of their content without paying it!
The tablet revolution. The post-PC era. The smartphone explosion. Whatever label you want to apply to it, personal computing is changing. People are spending more time with smaller devices like tablets and smartphones and less time on desktops and laptops. This been evident for awhile, but the trend is still relatively young and the data points are only just beginning to trickle in.
According to the Cisco(R) Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2011 to 2016, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 18-fold over the next five years, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month -- or an annual run rate of 130 exabytes -- by 2016. The expected sharp increase in mobile traffic is due, in part, to a projected surge in the number of mobile Internet-connected devices, which will exceed the number of people on earth (2016 world population estimate of 7.3 billion; source: United Nations). During 2011-2016 Cisco anticipates that global mobile data traffic will outgrow global fixed data traffic by three times. 1. More Streamed Content 2. More Mobile Connections 3. Enhanced Computing of Devices 4. Faster Mobile Speeds 5. More Mobile Video
Social TV and social media helped propel the 54th Annual Grammy Awards to huge broadcast ratings and increased online chatter. This year’s Grammy Awards were a hugely social and digital affair. Even with the tape delay (which prevented a real-time social conversation from taking place on the east and west coasts), the Grammys still broke new social TV records. According to Bluefin Labs, the Grammys earned 13 million social comments. That breaks the record from last week’s Super Bowl and absolutely dwarfs every other entertainment event from the last year. The most-talked about moments included Adele’s performance of “Rollin in the Deep” and her win for Album of the Year, Jennifer Hudson’s tribute to Whitney Houston and Chris Brown’s performance.
Showyou 3.0 launches today, and if you watch videos on an iPad, a Kindle Fire, an iPhone or an iPod Touch, you need to try it. If you have an Apple TV, so much the better. Ed. Note: content discovery is key in vast video world. ShowYou is the map and the compass you need (and I am not affiliated in any way to this company).
Dish Network has generated a lot of ink recently in its quest to get FCC approval for its plan to build a nationwide LTE Advanced network with the 40 MHz of S-band spectrum in the 2 GHz range it purchased from TerreStar Networks and DBSD North America. However, those S-band licenses aren't the only radio waves that Dish owns.
Ed. Note:Analysts Mike Dano has a bad view on the situation: Sure the 700Mhz (if used in a-LTE) will not be dedicated 100% to Mobile TV but as everybody agrees 60% of it will carry videos anyway (would it be live TV or on-demand services). Moreover, Dish definitively knows how to monetize video content. So my bet: directly or indirectly these MhZ WILL BE used for Mobile TV and very likely Dish will monetize part of it (maybe together with AT&T). Cisco annual study will be out in the next 2-3 days.
New research shows that the increasing demand for over-the-top video is creating a boon for Wi-Fi equipment manufacturers, increasing the number of in-home video WLAN-enabled video devices to approach 600 million in 2015.
Ed. Note: all these devices are becoming more and more bandwidth hungry. They synchronize, backup, duplicate, update, stream and download all sorts of things. Nights see more and more wifi traffic jam.
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The possible allocation of spectrum in the 700MHz band, used for digital broadcasting in Europe, to mobile services will be considered at the next ITU World Radiocommuniction Conference (WRC) in 2015, despite opposition from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and others. [Ed. Note - Ouch!]
Ooyala tracks the mobile-video industry and produced some great news in its latest edition of the Video Index report. Tracking smartphones, tablets and connected TVs, and comparing it to the previous ’Q4, video plays doubled in the 4th quarter of 2011. This is one of the largest jumps since the company began tracking.
Jason Ary, Mobile Lead at DISH Network, discusses Second Screen, Social TV, and the changing face of television in our quick interview.
Microsoft, Netflix and Qualcomm are the founding members. Other companies rounding out the membership at the time of this announcement include: Adobe, AEG Digital Media, Akamai, BuyDRM, Digital Rapids, Digital TV Labs, Dolby, EBU-UER, Elemental, Envivio, Ericsson, Harmonic, Intertrust, NDS, Packet Ship, Path1, RGB Networks, Samsung, Thomson, University of Klagenfurt and ZiXi.
Europe is now ready to pay for mobile TV services, but only if the quality improves, with similar findings for the Asia Pacific region from a survey of 1500 consumers by media delivery vendor Viadiator. In the UK, 73 percent of people have already or would be willing to pay for mobile content, while for Malaysia the figure is 74 percent and 64 percent for India. Such figures seem surprising given that mobile TV has largely failed to take off in Europe so far, with almost all deployments and trials of the the DVB-H standard for delivering to handheld devices having been abandoned.
The days of all-you-can eat mobile bandwidth are already ending, and landline broadband could soon follow suit. You, my data-hungry friend, my not be ready for it, but your Cookie Monster-like habit of gobbling up data has made this a certainty. You may rail at the injustice of it all, but that won’t stop it from happening. AT&T has promised to start throttling the top 5 percent–their heaviest data users. It began sending out texts last week to inform those users that the time had come to occasionally reduce their 3G speeds down to 2G (that is, the molasses-like Edge network).
Dish Network, sitting on an increasingly valuable stash of spectrum vital to powering wireless data traffic, is waiting on a key waiver from the Federal Communications Commission before deciding on its next move.
The booming LTE market will translate into 17 percent revenue growth for the overall global mobile communications equipment market in 2012, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli.
Television is in trouble. Americans streamed 43.5 billion videos in December 2011, up 44% since December 2010, according to comScore’s 2012 US Digital Future In Focus report released today. The study also showed that 105.1 million Americans now watch videos online each day, up 43% from 73.7 million in 2010.
The 2012 International CES showcased the latest benchmarks for ATSC Mobile DTV on several fronts last month, yet what made this CES stand out from previous confabs was the inclusion of beta-stage concepts striving to go beyond Mobile DTV's basic claim-to-fame—allowing stations to merely stream local content to mobile devices. "Our intent is to show ATSC Mobile DTV can be more than just simulcasting of a broadcaster's digital TV programs, which in itself delivers new avenues for broadcast TV," said Dr. Jong Kim, president of Zenith Research & Development Laboratory. (Zenith is a wholly owned subsidiary of LG Electronics.) "Because of the capability of receiving broadcast programs virtually anywhere, anytime and anyplace, we've shown how electronic coupons could be transmitted to mobile devices to facilitate local advertising and purchasing—including impulse-buying."
Claude, a man longing for love in the city of lights, uses multiple devices to connect to his work and social media apps. Ed. Note: This is not funny... This is my life! :)
Verizon Wireless is in the throes of fending off opponents after the company gave the FCC copies of commercial agreements with several of the nation’s largest cable companies. The FCC is in the process of deciding whether to approve the cable companies’ plans to sell their unused spectrum to Verizon Wireless—a decision that, according to Verizon, is unrelated to the co-marketing agreements that the carrier and the cable companies announced at the same time they announced the spectrum deal. Nevertheless, when the FCC asked for copies of the marketing agreements, Verizon and the cable companies complied—under the condition that only redacted versions would be made available publicly.
Amazon, which had been rumored to be moving toward launching a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix, pulled the trigger this morning on a deal with Viacom that takes it one step closer.
Ed. Note: We see lot of strategic moves in the "devices+content+network" partnerships these days: Redbox+Verizon, ATT and Dishes are fighting like a old couple (but they need each other so much, no?), Amazon & Viacom, AppleTV on Verizon/ATT. Any other?
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