A-VSB brings new revenue opportunities for broadcasters through the mobile delivery of local TV, as well as premium TV content, value-added advertising and interactive services. Local broadcasters can now “Take Local TV Mobile” with their existing spectrum and modest facilities upgrades. Read the press release here.
The following companies are bringing their unique technologies to the A-VSB Initiative to enable the delivery of local mobile TV services that are relevant, engaging and profitable.
MobiTV, a highly interactive user experience platform is being brought to you by MobiTV, Inc. Based on the emerging OMA-RME standard, features such as voting, polling, mCommerce, audience measurement and participation will bring an unprecedented variety of services and business models to A-VSB.
For more information, please contact Alan Moskowitz at 510.450.5054 or alan@mobitv.com
Nokia Siemens Networks provides an OMA BCAST compliant mobile broadcast TV service platform. This platform manages the delivery of TV/video and datacast content such as local traffic, weather and news/sports information over an A-VSB mobile broadcast TV transmission network, while ensuring both service and content protection in addition to a user friendly Electronic Service Guide.
For more information please contact Jean-Francois Chapuis at +1.770.361.1289 or jean-francois.chapuis@nsn.com.
Rohde & Schwarz is providing transmission technology and hardware, including integration into existing broadcast infrastructure, for the demo/trial.For more information, please contact Dave Benco at: 724.852.1332 or dave.benco@rsa.rohde-schwarz.com.
Samsung Electronics is providing mobile receivers for the consumer trials as well as the A-VSB core technology, which Samsung invented and brought to the ATSC as a proposed open standard in 2005.” For more information, please contact John Godfrey at 202.887.5667 or
john.godfrey@samsung.com
SES AMERICOM will host the centralized head-end infrastructure and distribute national programming to the demo/trial sites by satellite from its Vernon Valley, NJ IP-PRIME® Broadcast Center.
For more information, please contact Sesh Simha at 703.589.0474 or
sesh.simha@ses-americom.com.
