Smackall Games - Mobile Game Developer  Mobile Game Development
News  Digital-video broadcast and the iPod phenomenon have
ignited a race to bring video to the palmtop. Processing
architectures are at the center of the struggle  Video is going
handheld. Consumer-electronics manufacturers are rushing past
handheld DVD players to compete against the Video iPod. Handheld
receivers for the emerging DVB (digital-video-broadcast)
standards are on everyone's drawing boards. Video approaching
VGA (video-graphics-array) resolution is flickering to life in
cell-phone handsets. And in every one of these markets, the most
forward-looking pundits are predicting the arrival of high-
definition handheld devices.  All of this could be an obvious
boon to consumer-electronics and handset manufacturers,
persuading consumers to rush out and buy another multihundred-
dollar toy and again replace their cell phone while they are at
it. But the growing demand for decent video on handheld devices
is posing a serious challenge to system