Analyst: Mobile TV at Least 5 Years Away
New mobile TV services won't take off in this country, or around the world, for years to come, says a new research report.
The gloomy forecast comes despite two Korean companies having stopped battling over standards for the new broadcasts. Too many other standards remain around the world for the industry to get rolling, the report from Strategy Eye says.
"Despite the hype, mobile TV will remain a digital media pipe dream for at least five years," analyst Thomas Warren says.
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On-demand Unicast Mobile TV is the future
This is exactly what we've been saying for 2 years.
Full-length broadcast TV on mobile phones is several years away. The infrastructure is expensive and there is no proven case that people will pay to watch the same TV they get at home for free on their mobile phones.
We belive the future is with on-demand unicast video streamed to mobiles.
And that's exactly what we at ROK are rolling-out globally.
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