DVB-H: so the pendulum swings again…
By Ben Robinson on Thursday, October 16th, 2008 at 1:02 PM PST In DVB-H, Mobile TV
The N96 has DVB-H on board - and is a very nice device too!
Barely a week after I wrote my last post about DVB-H devices, and the battle they face with the “newcomer” DVB-T devices, another story appears with an opinion – this it’s FOR DVB-H. Silicon.com quotes a Frost & Sullivan report, which says that DVB-H will become the standard for Mobile broadcasting by 2011.
By 2011, analyst house Frost and Sullivan predicts revenues in the DVB-H mobile TV market will be worth €6.8bn, with operators likely to charge users between €7 and €12 per month extra for DVB-H functionality by 2010.
Like with many of these articles, they present really good arguments and strong viewpoints – for me though, the Mobile TV market is really fragmented right now, with lots of disruptive devices out there. They could have multiple radios in them (makes downloading video content easier and more likely faster), or they could have a DVB-T tuner, picking up Free-to-air terrestrial TV. How this all plays out in the next five years is going to be VERY interesting….
[Via: Silicon.com]
Hi – the silicon.com story is from 2005 so this is really old news.