BT Movio will launch its mobile TV service in the UK later this year and technology partner TTP is licensing the IP for a DAB receiver module to mobile manufacturers.
The Technology Partnership (TTP) is licensing its DAB-IP open standards based mobile television module to manufacturers following a pilot trial and agreement with BT Movio.
In the mobile TV service trial last November handsets based on TTP’s DAB-IP module were used by 1,000 users to receive mobile television broadcasts and digital radio over the DAB spectrum.
The service is significant in that it uses the Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) network to broadcast mobile TV over a GPRS back channel.
The software from TTP includes both DAB IP based digital TV and DAB radio reception and supports the main open broadcast standards for delivering TV to mobile devices – using IP multicast. The module supports Microsoft’s digital rights management, audio and video codecs for mobile TV reception.
“We believe this will be an important catalyst for mobile TV growth – the market has access to a successfully tested technology from a four-month trial; in addition, the module is low cost and can be quickly scaled to millions of users, whatever broadcast standard is being used,” said Martin Orrell, general manager of Digital Broadcast mobile TV at TTP.
According to Emma Lloyd, managing director of BT Movio: “The ability to license ready made DAB-IP device solutions is significant for manufacturers as it allows them to get mobile TV-enabled handsets into production very quickly.”