LG develops mobile TV technology

LONDON (MarketWatch) - South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. has developed
technology that will make it relatively cheap for American broadcasters to
send television signals to mobile phones, according to reports.
According to reports in The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News, LG will
demonstrate at the Consumer Electronics Show that begins Monday in Las Vegas
how TV stations can buy relatively inexpensive add-on devices to their
transmitters to enable what it's calling Mobile Pedestrian Handheld (MPH)
broadcasts. Phone makers, such as LG will then have to install a reception
chip on their phones.
The technology is based on a U.S. standard designed in the mid-1990s, but
heretofore the reception was poor in moving vehicles. Now, the technology
will allow reception at 56 miles per hour, the Bloomberg report said.
In Europe, a competing standard called DVH is used in phones such as those
made by Nokia Corp. and used by mobile operators including Vodafone Group
plc.
Source: marketwatch.com