Mike Short, VP Research & Development, O2 Following several successful trials of DVB-H technology, what has the industry learned about the potential of mobile tv.
Texas Instruments aims to be a big player in bringing mobile television content to cell phones and used the World Cup as a testing ground, as Texas Instrument’s Doug Rasor tells Matt Andrejczak.
From the editors of the highly successful WCDMA for UMTS, this new book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date reference to High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technologies for WCDMA. The editors cover both HSDPA and HSUPA, including an in-depth description and explanation of 3GPP standards, and expected performance based on simulations and first measurements. The text also discusses the impact of HSDPA and HSUPA on network dimensioning, covers applications and end-to-end performance in detail, and includes a section on radio frequency requirements and terminal design considerations.
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The hype mill is in overdrive about the benefits of IPTV and it is getting increasingly difficult to distinguish propaganda from reality. It seems at the moment that IPTV is more or less anything that anyone with an interest in it wants it to be.
IPTV is definitely here and will be of immense importance to carriers and service providers in their ongoing quest to own the customer and lock them in to their networks applications.
“The book is easy to read at different levels – from entry level to expert level. Of particular benefit are the checklist updates at the end of each chapter…IP is now a fashionable subject and there are plenty of interesting books on this subject. I find this book among the better ones, for its systematic approach and clarity of the text…The “Video over IP” book is highly recommended for all practising broadcast engineers. As IP is penetrating all areas of broadcast technologies, this book represents an excellent starting point for all of them.” – EBU Techincal Review
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