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There’s a nifty new wireless video technology on the horizon, and its best feature is its price: free.
A group of broadcasters and electronics companies has developed a standard called Mobile DTV that will let cellphones and other portable gadgets receive video using a part of the new digital spectrum given to broadcast stations, ostensibly to support their high definition signals.
The group announced Monday that it will start testing the service in late summer in Washington, D.C. Five local TV stations will broadcast their regular programming over the new system, including local affiliates of CBS, NBC, PBS and Ion.
So far, 70 stations in 28 markets have said they will be broadcasting in the format by the end of this year. The technology’s backers say that the equipment to broadcast using the format will cost each station about $250,000.
Right now there are no devices that can receive these signals, but Samsung and LG are two main backers, so there will be phones and other gizmos soon. Dell also announced it will make a laptop that can receive the broadcast signals. Another market will be backseat viewers for cars.
There are other companies working on mobile television services, such as MobiTV and Qualcomm’s MediaFLO . But these are subscription services, and I wonder how many people will want to pay $10 or more a month for another package of video channels.
In the future, the Mobile DTV technology could also be used for subscription video services, but for now it is meant for free simulcasts of the existing broadcast stations. The technology allows each station to broadcast up to 8 simultaneous program streams.
We’ll have to see the devices that can use this and the quality of the experience. But this certainly looks like a nifty use for the new digital broadcast spectrum, perhaps a better use than viewing at home in a country where 90 percent of households have cable or satellite service.
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