Yep, Australia has decided it’s DVB-H trial-time according to Rapid TV News:
The broadcast TV via mobile trial, being conducted in Sydney and coordinated by the Australian Industry (Ai) Group’s Australian Digital Suppliers industry Forum (ADSIF), is partly to demonstrate the interoperability of current handsets with start of the art head-end mobile TV encoders. It is also further assessing the transmission coverage of mobile TV broadcasts. A previous trial, which ended in 2007, used handsets that were not then commercially available. That trial was predominantly to assess technical matters.
Now, who do we think could be involved in a DVB-H tirla on the handset side? Well, it would have to be our favourites, Nokia, Samsung, and LG – all of whom have a bevy of DVB-H-able devices.
Apparently there will be nine streams in the trial, including channels such as ABC1, Fox Sports News, and MTV. The trial has a license to run until Feb 28th only – so if you know someone who’s involved, you can watch some video-on-the-move until then…!
[Via: Rapid TV News]