February 7, 2007
Korean DMD for the Vatican?
Pope Benedict XVI may watch TV with his cell phone late this year thanks to Korean-developed technology dubbed terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB), reports The Korea Times .
"Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, plan to provide 100 DMB-enabled handsets to the Vatican in time for President Roh Moo-hyun's visit to Rome next week.
The phones will be used as a broadcasting terminal late this year when the country's public broadcaster RAI TV launches terrestrial DMB with one video and eight audio channels.
"We plan to offer terrestrial DMB phones to the Roman Catholic Church when President Roh visits there during Feb. 14 to 16,' an official at the Ministry of Information and Communication said."
The above illustration was drawn by The Korea Times staff to iilustrate plans by Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics to offer terrestrial mobile broadcasting (DMB) devices to the Vatican.
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