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A fuzzy picture
"THIS is a really exciting time-a new era is starting," says Peter
Bazalgette, the chief creative officer of Endemol, the television company behind
"Big Brother" and other popular shows. He is referring to the upsurge of
interest in mobile television, a nascent industry at the intersection of
telecoms and media which offers new opportunities to devicemakers, content
producers and mobilenetwork operators.
Already, many mobile operators offer a selection of television channels or
individual shows, which are "streamed" across their thirdgeneration (3G)
networks. In South Korea, television is also sent to mobile phones via satellite
and terrestrial broadcast networks, which is far more efficient than sending
video across mobile networks. In Europe, the Italian arm of 3, a mobile
operator, recently acquired Canale 7, a television channel, with a view to
launching mobileTV broadcasts in Italy in the second half of 2006.
Meanwhile, Apple Computer, which launched a videocapable version of its
iPod portable musicplayer in October, is striking deals with television
networks to expand the range of shows that can be purchased for viewing on the
device, including "Lost", "Desperate Housewives" and "Law & Order".
Despite all this activity, however, the prospects for mobile TV are
unclear. For a start, nobody really knows if consumers will pay for it, though
surveys suggest they like the idea. Informa, a consultancy, says there will be
125m mobileTV users by 2010. But many other mobile technologies inspired high
hopes and then failed to live up to expectations. And even if people do want TV
on the move, there is further uncertainty in two areas: technology and business
models.
At the moment, mobile TV is mostly streamed over 3G networks. But sending
an individual data stream to each viewer is inefficient and will be
unsustainable in the long run if mobile TV takes off. So the general consensus
is that 3G streaming is a prelude to the construction of dedicated mobileTV
broadcast networks, which transmit digital TV signals on entirely different
frequencies to those used for voice and data. There are three main standards:
DVBH, favoured in Europe; DMB, which has been adopted in South Korea and Japan;
and MediaFLO, which is being rolled out in America. Watching TV using any of
these technologies requires a TVcapable handset, of course.
In contrast, watching downloaded TV programmes on an iPod or other portable
video player is already possible today. And unlike a programme streamed over 3G
or broadcast via a dedicated mobileTV network, shows stored on an iPod can be
watched on an underground train or in regions with patchy network coverage. That
suggests that some shows (such as drama) better suit the download model, while
others (such as live news, sports or reality shows) are better suited to
realtime transmission. The two approaches will probably coexist.
Just as there are several competing mobileTV technologies, there are also
many possible business models. Mobile operators might choose to build their own
mobileTV broadcast networks; or they could form a consortium and build a shared
network; or existing broadcasters could build such networks.
The big question is whether the broadcasters and mobile operators can agree
how to divide the spoils, assuming there are any. Broadcasters own the content,
but mobile operators generally control the handsets, and they do not always see
eye to eye. In South Korea, a consortium of broadcasters launched a freetoair
DMB network last month, but the country’s mobile operators were reluctant to
provide their users with handsets able to receive the broadcasts, since they
were unwilling to undermine the prospects for their own subscriptionbased
mobileTV services.
Then there is the question of who will fund the production of mobileTV
content: broadcasters, operators or advertisers? Again, the answer is probably
"all of the above".
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