{"id":3259,"date":"2005-04-27T09:16:30","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T09:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/tv-mobile-killer-app.html"},"modified":"2005-04-27T09:16:30","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T09:16:30","slug":"tv-mobile-killer-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/tv-mobile-killer-app.html","title":{"rendered":"TV: Mobile Killer App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">TV is so addictive that this report about it being a mobile killer app is probably dead right. Between sports, 24 and Apprentice Season 11, we won\u2019t be watching less TV any time soon. Mobile TV makes infinite sense and the question is who will benefit from the growth of the market. ABI Research has a new <span style=\"COLOR: blue\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abiresearch.com\/products\/market_research\/Mobile_Television_Devices_and_ICs\">report<\/a> <\/span>on this market and here are some of the things it covers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">What is the general outlook for TV in the cellphone for the next five years?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">What were the key enablers that allowed TV to come into the handset?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">Why do we need to move from analog to digital TV? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">What are some of the current industry objections to cellular TV, and is there any validity to these objections? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">What kinds of content will we see in the mobile handset? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">What are operators\u2019 attitudes to mobile TV &#8212; what are their business models and strategy? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">What are the differences between network streaming and broadcast methods of transferring TV content?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">What are the differences between DVB-H, MediaFLO, T-DMB, and ISDB-T? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">What ICs and components are required to enable TV in the handset? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">What are the form-factor, power consumption, and price of the RF tuner and the baseband? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">What software is required to enable mobile TV? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">What penetration rates and TAMs do we expect for mobile TV in handsets for the next five years? <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV is so addictive that this report about it being a mobile killer app is probably dead right. 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