Mobile content specialist Kamera has closed a multi-territory deal with IMImobile, a mobile value added service provider, for the comedy home video channel Vidiots. The contract sees IMImobile handling distribution […]
Austria opens up DVB-H for new entrants
The Austrian government will quickly introduce mobile TV in the country using the DVB-H standard. The timing will be such that the new services will be on air during next […]
BBC World on YouTube – no UK access
Last week BBC World quietly launched a dedicated news and information ‘channel’ on YouTube, which is now available to millions of internet users across the world, but not in the […]
Poland gears up for mobile TV
According to Lars Svensson, the president of Ericsson Polska, mobile TV services could be introduced in Poland as soon as next year. Quoted in the local press, he is understood […]
3G Austria launches HD MobileTV
Hutchison 3G Austria has said that it is now offering its customers from today HD Mobile TV, a new standard of better quality mobile television. Using H.264 encoding the UMTS […]
ProSieben group criticises Austrian DVB-H policy
The German ProSiebenSat.1 group has criticised Austria’s DVB-H policy, claiming it favours the public broadcaster ORF. The two main channels ORF1 and ORF2 enjoy must carry status on all platforms, […]
How to run a WAP portal
Julian Clover speaks to the founders of an instructional video library that will deliver how to films to mobile phones A few months ago there was a leak in my […]
Irdeto and SafeNet combine CA and DRM
Irdeto and SafeNet claim to have resolved ‘thevMobile TV protection technology war’ by announcing the world’s first solution combining conditional access and DRM. The resulting joint solution unites two normally […]
Ocko secures Czech mobile licence
The Czech Broadcasting Council (RRTV) is reported to have granted DVB-H distribution licences to both the music channel Ocko and radio station Radio Proglas. However, it has refused to also […]
KPN puts back DVB-H launch to 2008
According to Marco Visser, the MD Mobile of the Dutch incumbent telco and DVB-T operator KPN, the company is putting back the launch of its mobile TV service until 2008. […]