[opendtv] New development in broadcast TV to handheld devices
How interesting.  It turns out that DVB-H is not making it, as a
mobile broadcast DTV standard, for precisely the same reasons
that some are skeptical about ATSC M/H chances of success. Which
is, the 3G operators don't see a benefit to themselves, so they
are not commissioning the handset manufacturers to build the
function into the handsets they offer with their service.  I
thought that the Europeans were more immune to such shenanigans,
but evidently not. Looks like mobile TV uptake is even smaller
in Europe than it is here. Like, 4 percent.  So Integrated
Mobile Broadcast (IMB) is a brand new TV broadcast standard that
is (a) legitimately cellular and (b) uses wideband CDMA, just
like all 3G cellular.  Which means, this would allow the 3G
operators to offload TV bandwidth hogs from their unicast
channels, but at the same time, NOT give this (they hope)
lucrative function to someone else, like TV broadcasters. The
broadcast channels come from 5