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EU backs DVB-H Mobile TV Standard Over Six Others

July 18, 2007

BBC News reports that European officials have still beating the drums a single standard for the rollout of mobile TV services across Europe.

EU Telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding is once again calling on member states to roll out services using the DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds) standard  "as quickly as possible."

 "We can either take the lead globally - as we did for mobile telephony based on the GSM standard developed by the European industry - or allow other regions to take the lion's share of the promised mobile TV market," she said.

"Wait-and-see is not an option. The time has come for Europe's industry and governments to switch on to mobile TV," she added.

Known to be a relatively open standard, DVB-H is one of seven currently accepted mobile tv standards.

Here's the BBC's complete list of these seven mobile tv standards, and the world regions they are likely to be found in:

  • DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds) - available in Europe, US, South Africa and Asia
  • S-DMB (Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcast) - South Korea, Japan
  • STIMI (Satellite Terrestial Interactive Multiservice Infrastructure) - China
  • MediaFLO - launched in US, trialled in UK and Germany
  • ISDB-T (Integrated Service Digital Broadcasting) - Japan
  • T-DMB (Terrestial Digital Mulitmedia Broadcast) - South Korea, Germany
  • DAB-IP (Digital Audio Broadcast) - UK 



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