Plans are underway to enable digital terrestrial TV broadcasts to be delivered to mobile phones, the DVB World 2003 conference heard in Dublin recently.
DVB-X will apparently enable the transmission of music, video clips and other multimedia content to a large audience via mobile handsets. It is already being seen as a cheaper and more efficient method of distribution than that offered by 2.5G and 3G mobile operators.
“This has been secret up until now,” said Ulrich Reimers, chairman of DVB’s Technical Module. However, he acknowledged that there are limitations to the system in that it is unable to deliver “digital TV broadcast for 24 hours [a day] on a mobile handset powered by a standard battery.”
