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Mobile TV tech adopted for U.S.
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October 19, 2009
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The Advanced Television Standards Committee announced Friday that it had adopted as the United States standard for mobile digital television a technology proposed by the Korean firms Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.
The international non-profit organization develops standards for digital television transmission, and it has been working on mobile broadcasting since May 2007. The organization selected a technology that uses the same standard as LG’s terrestrial digital television VSB and Samsung’s Advanced-VSB.
The technology allows mobile devices to receive high-definition digital television signals anywhere, even on the subway. With the ATSC decision, the system would be usable on mobile phones, portable DVD players and MP3 players in North America.
“Being selected shows our leadership in the broadcasting and technology sector,” said Cho Byung-duck, executive vice president of the Digital Media and Communications R&D Center at Samsung Electronics. “It is also meaningful that the standard was drawn out by the cooperation of two local firms.”
By Lee Eun-joo [angie@joongang.co.kr]
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