Doordarshan’s Mobile TV initiatives

Category: VAS | 1 Comment | Posted on May 31, 2006

Good old DD is going hi-tech. It plans to start its DVB-H based mobile TV service in the second half of this year.

DD will also digitize its archive and make it available on a per view basis with the operators as streaming videos.

Doordarshan director general Navin Kumar:

“With this technology, we will be able to make available the content of our four national channels on mobiles. Earlier, we had made available DD News in moving vehicles in Delhi through the Digital Video Broadcasting to terrestrials (DVB-T) earlier. Now with the DVB-H technology, we are entering the mobile space,”

Except Nokia N92, there are hardly any handset models with a DVB-H receiver. Although its nice to see a broadcaster taking mobile TV initiatives, I am not sure if the market is ready for such a service yet.

Related: Mobile TV in India

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