Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

Brandon Butterworth brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk
Sat Jun 8 10:08:07 UTC 2013


> I was at an incentive auction discussion earlier in the week where it
> was suggested that the broadcasters see a rosy future with ATSC
> beaming to mobile, but there is still work to be done.

They might wish, after many years there has been little take up of the
various systems created to do this (we've spent quite some time working
on the standards). Nobody wanted to pay for it to be in handsets, other
features were seen as more important uses of the space/power.

The next try is LTE Broadcast
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMBMS

brandon




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