Still catching up after a few days of vacation here. As I kick my brain back into gear, here’s a video from CTIA showing Motorola’s Venkat Eswara demoing the DH02. If you haven’t seen the mobile TV device in person, this is a nice close-up view. As a reminder, it runs on the DVB-H spec [...]
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Taking a break for the moment from the highly technical posts, here’s some news that was somewhat obscured by yesterday’s corporate announcement that Motorola will split into two parts. (There, I’ve said it. No, I don’t have any more information. No, I can’t speculate on how the split will occur.) In [...]
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Both US mobile broadband usage and TV viewing on the Internet have soared. In two entirely different articles today I read that:
Mobile broadband usage has gone up 154% in a year, and
NBC.com measured more than half a billion video streams on the Web in virtually the same time span.
This begs the [...]
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Here are some of my favorite shots from the CMTS lab yesterday. (Click thumbnails for a larger view) In order, there’s a photo of fiber nodes, racks upon racks of cable modems, a cable modem close-up, a mess of wires (far worse than my own home entertainment system…) and a BSR 64000 (CMTS) [...]
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It’s been difficult to sort through the debate over mobile WiMAX in my own mind. On the one hand, people who experience it walk away impressed. On the other hand, there has been significant skepticism since the break-up of Sprint and Clearwire and Verizon’s decision to move forward with LTE as a 4G [...]
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I made it back from CES and am recovering well. However, I have a backlog of content, so expect to see more CES-related posts for a while. Here are some photos of the Mobile TV DH01 announced last week. From top to bottom they are the main menu, a side view (the [...]
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Motorola has just launched the Mobile TV DH01, a portable TV player supporting the DVBH broadcasting standard.
Since I haven’t gotten hands-on time with the device, I’m going to keep this post limited to product specs. However, I did get a few questions answered that aren’t listed outright in the press release, [...]
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As I mentioned last week, there are changes ahead for this blog including more commentary from Motorola executives and experts on a variety of topics. To kick off these executive visits I sat down recently with Geoff Roman, a Motorola corporate vice president, to hear his thoughts on 2007, 2008 and beyond.
Geoff [...]
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Motorola is starting a femtocell trial with a major (as-yet-undisclosed) European operator. Remember earlier femtocell discussions? We’re talking about the technology that amplifies cell phone signals, particularly within consumer homes.
From the press release – the trial is with Motorola’s end-to-end solution, which uses a range of consumer premise equipment [...]
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Ages ago I drafted a paper on DRM transcoding with the help of some of Motorola’s top experts on the subject. The basic premise of the paper is that transcoding is critical to breaking down the barriers that prevent consumers from moving content across devices and networks. Voila: seamless mobility.
Of course, [...]
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