Mobile TV Research Articles

Movies on the move [mobile phone video content reception

Video content on mobile phones represents a huge, and potentially lucrative, market provided the regulatory and technical challenges can be overcome. This article begins by discussing two commercial trials in the UK looking at broadcasting television to mobile phone users via digital radio and digital TV-type networks. It then outlines the technical issues involved, such as spectrum allocation, mobile broadcast TV standards, and European systems compatibility.

Prospectus of mobile TV: Another bubble or killer application?

This paper investigates the prospectus of digital multimedia broadcasting from the technical, economic and regulatory issues and whether the market is evolving equitable, open, and competitive environment. Applying concepts of open access policy to the emerging technology of DMB, this paper attempts to gain a better understanding of how DMB will evolve and stabilize in next generation network environments. Three research questions guide this study: (1) How does DMB trigger a change in policy, market and industry structure? (2) What are the driving forces of the rapid DMB development in Korea? (3) Does DMB haul new generation network environment by disrupting the current network environment? As these questions involve socio-technical issues, this study uses a socio-technical perspective to investigate the complex relations between social and technical aspects of DMB by highlighting the co-evolving nature, diversity, and interface, which constitute the next generation network environment. The implication of next generation networks involves the dynamics of industry, regulation, and technology. Finally, this paper provides the DMB prospectus in reference to the next generation network environment.

Telephone TV [TV broadcasting

This paper discusses television broadcasting to mobile phones by using services that stream content to their handset over high-speed, packet-based cellular networks. Millions more could soon join the fray with the launch of an alternative television-broadcast technology. The streamed service is great for watching new, sports, and quickly digestible entertainment programs, while in transit. But watching an hour-long TV program of a movie on a small screen is hard on the eyes, not to mention the wallet if you're buying the video stream from your mobile service provider. Now, mobile TV services begin to spread and cellphone companies are doing further development and deployment of the technology to be commercially available.

What lies ahead for cellular technology?

The ongoing goal of cellular services providers has been to make networks faster to enable new revenue-producing Internet-access and multimedia- and data-based broadband services, in addition to telephony. For example, carriers want to offer mobile Internet services as fast as those provided by cable- and DSL-based wireline broadband technologies. This process has taken the industry through various generations of radio-based wireless service: After first-generation (1G) analog cellular service, they have offered 2G, 2.5G, and, since 2001, 3G digital technology. As carriers upgrade their 3G offerings, they are looking perhaps five years ahead to 4G services, which would be based on the Internet Protocol and support mobile transmission rates of 100 Mbps and fixed rates of 1 Gbps. Presently the subject of extensive research, 4G would enable such currently unavailable services as mobile high-definition TV and gaming, as well as teleconferencing.

A framework for an evolutionary path toward 4G by means of cooperation of networks

Combining networks to form a composite network for joint operations in the current business context is desirable in order to limit capital and operational expenditures, but currently requires complying with existing value chains and business models. However, commonalities between the two most popular infrastructures, mobile cellular and TV broadcast, are such that a common framework for services and QoS management can be built, without the expense of starting from scratch in the design of a universal system able to connect users for communications and entertainment. This article describes such a framework that can potentially ally mobile cellular and TV broadcast platforms as one stepping stone toward 4G and the information society.

The knowledge society: the challenge of transition

Considers the rapid transition that is taking place from an industrial to a knowledge society and analyzes the components that are likely to comprise such a knowledge society. Explores the nature of that transition and how people will cope with this period of profound change. Points to the lead taken in mobile technologies and interactive TV in Europe compared to personal computer (PC) dominance in the USA; the affect on uptake of new technologies by income, race, gender and age; the emergence of the 24-hour society; the shift from large factories to small, medium and micro enterprises; and the blurring of the boundaries between different sectors of the economy and different institutions. Points to the fact that many of the countries that are making the fastest strides into the knowledge economy are small (Finland, Singapore, Sweden and Iceland). The major investments in ICTs in schools, libraries, colleges and universities is expected to be one of the most profound changes in the long run and the globalization of education will make learning the largest industry of the twenty-first century. Proposes a set of new values for this knowledge society comprising: economic competitiveness with social inclusion; lifelong learning for all; risk: management over minimization; ‘smallish’ is beautiful; social innovation over technological invention; participation over representation; interdependence over independence; value-added with values.

Mobile telephony: the main driver of Romanian telecommunications!

This article presents a survey of Romanian telecommunications: institutional reform, fixed and mobile telephony, cable TV, and Internet, as well as manufacturers. Potential competitors at market liberalization and some conclusions are also presented. The present status as well as trends in a fast developing market are considered.

Development and practice of Tele-earthwork system

The Tele-Earthwork System is able to remotely control unmanned heavy construction equipment, buldozers, power shovel, crawler dumptruck, rock breaker, mobile TV camera and mobile transmitter.All the equipments operated from a control room located 2 kilometers away from dangerous construction sites, that was near by Mt. Fugen.

Ghost cancelling for stationary and mobile television

Equalizing a mobile TV channel requires a readjustment of the equalizer during picture transmission due to the Doppler shifting. New approaches, like blind equalization, are presented, which are also interesting for equalizing stationary receivers. >

Multiantenna scanning diversity system for mobile TV reception with independently optimized picture and sound quality

The presented mobile multiantenna scanning diversity system for terrestrial TV highly improves the reception in cars making use of four active broadband TV antennas. The diversity systems for picture and sound choose independently from each other the optimum antenna signal among the four TV antennas based upon different diversity criteria. An indicator sensitive to the RF level evaluates the picture quality at the end of each video line. The TV sound is optimized by application of a diversity processor originally designed for FM broadcasting and is available now as an integrated circuit. This processor is sensitive to noise, multipath distortions, and three types of interferences: cochannel, adjacent channel, and intermodulation interferences.

What Sort of Mobile Television Unit Do we Want?

Because the high cost, large size and complexity of general purpose mobile TV units may not be justified, it may be more economic to design specialized units for three different applications identified as Live coverage, Drama inserts, and News coverage. The effect on the design of mobile units of lightweight cameras, camera cable and monitors is discussed.

The Conversion of A Standard Tv Mobile Unit for Greater Flexibility and Operating Convenience

The Conversion of A Standard Tv Mobile Unit for Greater Flexibility and Operating Convenience