Nokia, Samsung agree on joint mobile TV standards

Nokia said on Monday it had agreed to work with Samsung Electronics to boost open standards in mobile television, based on its favored DVB-H technology. Reuters reports.

"Cellphone makers and mobile operators alike are keen to tap the potentially lucrative market in phones that receive television, but the take-up of services has been held back by fragmentation of the technologies on offer.

There are half a dozen competing systems.

Nokia said it and Samsung plan to make their DVB-H mobiles work with the same standards as the Nokia network services system. They would work on using the OMA BCAST standard for mobile operators, the statement said."

emily | 2:00 PM | DVB-H |
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