ICO Global Communications and Alcatel-Lucent are putting together quite the show at CES 2008, where they'll be demoing mobile high-resolution live television programming to a moving vehicle at the show.
It will actually be North America’s first video broadcast based on the DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite services to Handhelds) mobile broadcasting standard.
So what exactly will they be demoing? These will be the first displays of the ICO alpha trial of "mobile interactive media" (or "mim") services.
The ICO "mim" product is a converged mobile media service that provides live and stored mobile TV in vehicles, interactive navigation, and roadside assistance. ICO mim will provide multiple channels of high-quality mobile video to portable, larger-screen (4.5 to 10 inch) devices.
ICO mim will also offer interactive IP data communication services - that's right Internet access and other data applications. Should be pretty interesting stuff to see.
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I cannot find what frequency they are going to use and that is important.
I know Sirius can send video to portable TV's because of how the system works.
I doubt they can come close to the coverage Sirius has.
I believe some variety of DVB (DVB-H maybe?) is being used elsewhere in the world for watching broadcast video content on cell phones... It'd be interesting to see this come to the states... and open up a whole new realm of content possibilities on cell phones...
anyone think sirius has to watch their back with this? Could it be a potential threat for sirius backseat? ??
anyone think sirius has to watch their back with this? Could it be a potential threat for sirius backseat? ??
I'm just happy that you guys will be at CES. Something, ANYTHING, other than this stupid merger.
just some info on this::::
The FCC has assigned 20 MHz of 2 GHz MSS spectrum to ICO, with geographic coverage of all 50 states in the United States, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
http://www.space.com/spacenews/archive06/ico_1127.html
They are sharing the band with others. What about Canada? It looks like they are going to use spot beams. I need to find out lots more about how they are making it work.
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