TV for your mobile phone is coming closer. O2 and Arqiva (previously NTL Broadcast) are about to launch a trial among 400 people in Oxford offering 16 channels including BBC1, BBC2 ITV and Channel 4. “Increasingly, new forms of content are making their way onto mobile devices - music, in particular, is already booming - and the latest buzz is about television,” said Dave Williams, O2’s chief technology officer. “There will be many millions of mobile TV viewers worldwide by 2010.”
The trouble with watching video on your mobile right now is the terrible toll it takes on your battery. The Oxford trial will be testing the new DVB standard, Digital Video Broadcast, which uses something known as time slicing to extend battery life. DVB is vying with DVB-H as the standard for the future in TV over mobile phones.
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