As you know, after Feb. 17, 2009, all analog television broadcasts will end and the U.S. will go digital. Companies are competing with one another to set the standard for mobile TV, which will grant mobile phones to receive and display digital signals from local broadcast stations. Samsung Electronics and LG are joining the arena where only one standard comes out the winner.
Video technology company Thomson and Qualcomm are two other companies that are vying to set the standard. The Television industry’s technical standards-setting body will decide the winner.
The standard-setting body, Advanced TV Systems Committee (ATSC), is expected to pick a standard sometime next year. The Television industry is hoping to set a standard swiftly, so Television stations won’t have to invest in multiple technologies.
With things like broadband and cable cutting into broadcast TV’s customer base, mobile Television may be the automobile to return local broadcast Television back to prominence, at least while viewers are on the go.
Via Mobilecrunch
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