Samsung and Nokia have announced that they are going to work together to boost the adoption of DVB-H services – they will do this by enabling interoperability of their devices, and Nokia’s DVB-H network delivery system. The manufacturers are going to deliver solutions based on the OMA-BCAST standard – previously Samsung had used the CBMS OSF standard.
In addition, the manufacturers wll also make use of the content protection profiles within the BCAST standard, such as the already available OMA DRM.
Nothing ground-breaking here you might think, but given the actual deployments with DVB-H thus far, it is actually extremely important. Without the standardisation process (I bet you thought DVB-H was just a single standard right? Wrong!), DVB-H will remain fragmented and not gain the traction that it should…
[Via: MobileTV Blog]