Mobile TV has been a notoriously difficult nut to crack in the U.S. market.
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The Olympics promise to be a picture-perfect showcase for China's digital mobile TV service.
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The other issue dominating the future of mobile TV is which technology will dominate.
Handset manufacturers continue to see sports fans as the early adopters of mobile TV.
The RCA Mobile TV Tablet also receives mobile digital TV channels from broadcasters not affiliated with Dyle.
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Despite a few early glitches, Italy has now become one of the most advanced markets for mobile TV.
Always-on Internet, mobile TV, viral video projectors -- it's enough to inspire a bad case of techno envy.
African pay TV giant MultiChoice is one of the companies preparing to offer mobile TV during the World Cup.
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This time Apple will revive the market for on-demand mobile TV and video.
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The company is a registered bidder and already owns similar spectrum that it uses for its mobile TV network, mediaFLO.
In an odd coincidence, that frequency in South Korea is heavily dominated by broadcasting companies beaming mobile TV to commuters.
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Wolf predicts the number of mobile TV subscribers worldwide will reach 462 million by 2012, up from a mere 23.8 million today.
But Nokia's vice-president for multimedia, Richard Sharp, is bullish about mobile TV.
The rise of mobile video makes it likely that someone will eventually figure out how to sell mobile TV in the U.S., too.
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The Chinese government, however, intends to use the Olympics to showcase the next wave of digital mobile TV, based on standards developed in China.
Unlike MediaFLO, it's completely free for users -- and that might be just the kick in the pants mobile TV needs to take hold.
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Mobile vendors will continue with their so-called 'Swiss Army knife' approach, loading phones with extras such as cameras, music players, Bluetooth and, increasingly, mobile TV.
No, your eyes aren't deceiving you, we've seen this exact phone before at CES 2012 where it was part of Dyle's Mobile TV showcase.
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RCA's toting its "Mobile TV Tablet" as, "the electronics industry's first dual-tuner mobile TV" -- making your on-the-go viewings of The View all the easier.
Licenses in the "E block" of spectrum, clustered around metropolitan areas like Boston and San Francisco, will be used to expand its mobile TV service, MediaFLO.
The RCA 8-inch Mobile TV Tablet has a battery life up to four hours in mobile TV mode, or up to 10 hours when web browsing.
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Access to the Dyle mobile TV service will be offered in select markets and at no additional charge to customers on a MetroPCS 4G LTE service plan.
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Products now include set-top boxes, home networking, mobile TV and a huge portfolio of technical patents -- the company controls licensing of the MP3 codec, for instance.
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During the 2006 World Cup, Italy spearheaded a similar campaign, ramping up coverage and rolling out new video phones to showcase the European mobile TV standard, DVB-H.
The RCA DMT580D may not be memorably named, but the television-centric tablet stands out for other reasons: most notably, its combination of DTV and Dyle-powered mobile TV.
Siano's Ironi predicts the technology will be as popular in China as it is in Japan, where 10% of the population, or 12 million people, regularly watch mobile TV.
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