Overview
The growth of mobile user terminals
suitable for multi-media consumption, combined
with emerging mobile multi-media applications
and the increasing capacities of wireless
technology, provide a case for understanding
facilities-based mobile broadcast, multicast and
unicast technologies as a complement to fixed
line broadcast video.
In developing a view of mobile TV as a
compliment to cable broadcast video; this paper
considers the drivers for future facilities-based
mobile TV technology, alternative mobile TV
distribution platforms, and, compares the
economics for the delivery of mobile TV
services.
We develop a taxonomy to compare the
alternatives, and explore broadcast technologies
such as DVB-H, DVH-SH and MediaFLO,
multicast technologies such as out-of-band and
in-band MBMS, and unicast or streaming
platforms.
