BRUSSELS -- DVB-H will be named as a European Union standard for mobile television broadcasting, but it will be nonmandatory, European governments said here Thursday.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — A bold stroke by a Houston-based company could establish the U.S. as the first nation with digital mobile TV broadcasting based on DVB-H, or Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld, ...

The DVB-H standard is backed by handsetmakers Nokia, Motorola, Philips, Sagem, Sony, Ericsson and Samsung as well as operators Vodafone, O2 and T-Mobile.

MPEG LA, the one-stop technology patent licensing shop, has issued a call for patents that are essential to the DVB-H standard. The standard is a specification of the DVB Project and the European ...

Sony Ericsson and Nokia announced their intention to co-operate to achieve interoperability in DVB-H enabled devices and secure multivendor mobile TV services and pilots from 2006 onwards. There ...

It was announced earlier this year that the digital video broadcasting handheld (DVB-H) standard would be used and adopted in Dubai by early 2009. DVB-H has also been adopted by the European Union as ...

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has adopted DVB-H as an official standard for mobile digital television in the United States. The publication of TIA-1105, “Terrestrial Mobile ...

System analysis has shown that DVB-H receivers must amplify the desired signal in the presence of an interfering signal that's greater than 45 dB higher. DVB-H RF designers will have to develop ...

German regulators have agreed with a European Union initiative and will adopt the DVB-H mobile broadcasting standard.

Germany is facing difficulties finding a workable business model for the mandatory DVB-H mobile video broadcasting standard. Perhaps the problem is that governments are trying to impose technology ...

Unlike DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds), MBMS provides two-way communication through a data "backchannel", which allows for interactive services such as casting votes for a ...

DVB-H will end up as mobile broadcasting's de facto standard before the end of the decade, analysts believe. By 2011, analyst house Frost and Sullivan predicts revenues in the DVB-H mobile TV ...