DD’s Mobile TV Trial Finally Goes Live
After almost a year of regular hype-building announcements, Doordarshan (DD) has finally launched its Mobile TV pilot with Nokia. Indiatimes reports that at present 8 channels are being beamed within 10-12 km of Akashwani Bhawan in Delhi, and can be viewed by anyone with DVB-H compatible handsets, between 5:30am and midnight. The channels being broadcast include DD National, DD News, DD Sports, DD Bharati, DD Urdu, DD Punjabi, DD Bangla and DD Podhigai. The number of channels is expected to be increased to 16. This pilot is in collaboration with Nokia, and at Convergence India earlier this year, Lloyd Mathias, Director-Marketing for Motorola had confirmed that they are also in talks with broadcasters for mobile TV trials.
However, readers should bear in mind that DVB-H is a terrestrial broadcasting technology, and only public broadcaster Doordarshan has license for terrestrial broadcasting, hence a monopoly. Another alternative is DVB-SH for reception of satellite channels, but both DVB-H and DVB-SH require handsets with built in receivers. I’ve seen demonstrations of both DVB-H, DVB-SH and Qualcomm’s MediaFLO at expo’s in Delhi, but one really can’t detect issues with clarity of reception under such test conditions.
Of DVBH and MediaFlo, MediaFlo is clearly the better technology and is actually the only one that is commercially launched globally. Interestingly in the US a CDMA and GSM player have both chosen MediaFlo over DVBH. I wonder what it took Nokia to convince Prasar Bharati to go live with them.
Now that DD has shown its hand, the government should allow others to use the balance spectrum on a revenue share basis. However, it should be compulsory for a telco, broadcaster and technology company to come together to bid as a consortium for the spectrum. This will ensure every one gets a shot as well as a situation of may the best team win.
it is very good but plz tell me how can i use this facility.
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sir i have nokia n-95 model mobile phone.iam living in india karnataka state of kawar district in Bhatkal uttar kanara.my phone is GPRS acivate.i want to see tv programes in my mobile.please tell me how to watch tv programes on mobile phones.my mobile number is 9902105260
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The launch of Mobile TV by Doordarshan is indeed an exiting development as a pilot demonstration.
India with its 160 million cell users is now ready for the next stage. If the responses to SMS, ring tone downloads,chats etc is any indication, the users are looing for much more in the mobile handset than just voice calling.
In this aspect India could parallel Korea and Japan where the data revenues and the usgae of non voice services is dominant.
This could be potential pot of gold at the edge of the rainbow and the people are now looking at how it is going to be franchised or offered.
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sir i have nokia n-95 model mobile phone.iam living in india orrisa state of kurda district in bhubneshwer.my phone is GPRS acivate.i want to see tv programes in my mobile.please tell me how to watch tv programes on mobile phones