Mobile TV Struggles in USA

Take a look:

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196603190

MANHASSET, N.Y. — In a move that may portend dark days for the U.S.
mobile-TV industry, Michael Schueppert, CEO of fledgling mobile-TV
operator Modeo LLC, abruptly quit the Texas-based company.

Schueppert's resignation became public when Crown Castle
International, Modeo's parent company, filed an 8-K report with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Michael Ramke, Modeo's vice president of marketing and business
development, has been appointed interim CEO.

Industry sources attributed the management change to Modeo's
inability, over more than a year, to lock up carrier deals or even
field-trial agreements for mobile-TV services in the States.

Schueppert, in a recent interview with EE Times, had acknowledged
that "the largest U.S. mobile operators are not yet as fully engaged
with mobile TV as we would like."

Verizon Wireless, whose CDMA-based cellular business has been tightly
integrated with Qualcomm Inc.'s technology, announced earlier this
year its adoption of Qualcomm's proprietary MediaFlo, a mobile-TV
spec that competes directly with the DVB-Handheld standard embraced
by Modeo. Other U.S. wireless carriers are said to be leaning toward
MediaFlo or to have remained noncommittal.


Of course bob will blame 8-VSB, not the DVB that Modeo uses.

Matthew

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Matthew L. Martin wrote:
Take a look:

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196603190

MANHASSET, N.Y. - In a move that may portend dark days for the U.S.
mobile-TV industry, Michael Schueppert, CEO of fledgling mobile-TV
operator Modeo LLC, abruptly quit the Texas-based company.

Schueppert's resignation became public when Crown Castle
International, Modeo's parent company, filed an 8-K report with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Michael Ramke, Modeo's vice president of marketing and business
development, has been appointed interim CEO.

Industry sources attributed the management change to Modeo's
inability, over more than a year, to lock up carrier deals or even
field-trial agreements for mobile-TV services in the States.

Schueppert, in a recent interview with EE Times, had acknowledged
that "the largest U.S. mobile operators are not yet as fully engaged
with mobile TV as we would like."

Verizon Wireless, whose CDMA-based cellular business has been tightly
integrated with Qualcomm Inc.'s technology, announced earlier this
year its adoption of Qualcomm's proprietary MediaFlo, a mobile-TV
spec that competes directly with the DVB-Handheld standard embraced
by Modeo. Other U.S. wireless carriers are said to be leaning toward
MediaFlo or to have remained noncommittal.


Of course bob will blame 8-VSB, not the DVB that Modeo uses.

Matthew

Can't blame 8-VSB because they are not using 8-VSB. No one in their
right would use 8-VSB for a mobile venture. (or a fixed one for that
matter)

I have always questioned the idea of cell phone based video
broadcasting. We presented the idea to Qualcomm only because that is
their business and they had the money to make it happen. We have always
thought the a broadcast venture should be aimed at mobile, portable and
fixed receivers with the bonus that such things as cell phones be able
to pick up the signal.

That said we think that Qualcomm will do great initially but that over
the long term any broadcast venture to cell phones becomes just another
feature that all cell phone companies have to offer as part of their
basic service.

And we have always thought the the weakest of the three current
ventures that are publicly known, Qualcomm, HiWire and Modeo, is Modeo
because they only have 5 MHz of spectrum and it is in the far less
desireable L-Band (1,670MHz and 1,675MHZ).

That Modeo's owner, Crown Castle, is a tower provider helps but not
maybe enough.

The best idea among the three belongs to HiWire since their idea is
closest to what we planned on doing. The dismissed our idea of
broadcasting to mobile and fixed devices for years while declaring that
they would do two way mobile Internet. They now say that they will be
doing broadcasting as I told them they would once they had played for
some time with the Internet idea.

They also have more bandwidth than Qualcomm or Modeo having 12 MHZ and
saying they will buy more. They are basically speculators IMO though so
you may see them sell out to others before they spend real money.

In the end though broadcast spectrum will be used for broadcasting and
it will use the proper tools to do it. That will include a robust
modulation that is receivable mobile, portable and fixed and it will
include an upgradeable codec.

Bob Miller

wrote

...We presented the idea to Qualcomm

Yeah right, Bob. Just the way "present" your ideas to this newsgroup. You
make it sound like you and Qualcomm are some sort of equals. Shurrr...

"Matthew L. Martin" wrote in message
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Take a look:

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196603190

MANHASSET, N.Y. — In a move that may portend dark days for the U.S.
mobile-TV industry, Michael Schueppert, CEO of fledgling mobile-TV
operator Modeo LLC, abruptly quit the Texas-based company.

Schueppert's resignation became public when Crown Castle
International, Modeo's parent company, filed an 8-K report with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Michael Ramke, Modeo's vice president of marketing and business
development, has been appointed interim CEO.

Industry sources attributed the management change to Modeo's
inability, over more than a year, to lock up carrier deals or even
field-trial agreements for mobile-TV services in the States.

Schueppert, in a recent interview with EE Times, had acknowledged
that "the largest U.S. mobile operators are not yet as fully engaged
with mobile TV as we would like."

Verizon Wireless, whose CDMA-based cellular business has been tightly
integrated with Qualcomm Inc.'s technology, announced earlier this
year its adoption of Qualcomm's proprietary MediaFlo, a mobile-TV
spec that competes directly with the DVB-Handheld standard embraced
by Modeo. Other U.S. wireless carriers are said to be leaning toward
MediaFlo or to have remained noncommittal.


Of course bob will blame 8-VSB, not the DVB that Modeo uses.

Matthew

--
I'm a contractor. If you want an opinion I'll sell you one.
Which one do you want?


Looks like it's struggling in England, too.
This guy's using a diversity receiver (!) and in a strong signal area:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=495208

David wrote:

Looks like it's struggling in England, too.
This guy's using a diversity receiver (!) and in a strong signal area:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=495208

Yes but if you read all the post it becomes clearer.

First the UK is a COFDM 2K country, the only one, and the first to
embrace COFDM.

They made a few mistakes and are saddled with 2K till transition when
they will go to 8K.

One poster compares the UK reception to Germany where they have better
reception mobile because they have an 8K system like the rest of the
world that uses DVB-T COFDM.

They will also increase their power level from an average of 3 kWs when
analog is shut down.

Even then the settings they choose may not favor mobile so they may
have some glitches. Germany's DVB-T setup is for fixed and portable
reception not mobile though mobile will work very well there and even
better with diversity reception.

The latest and best modulation was developed in Silicon Vally by Legend
Silicon and is a 4K system using TDS-OFDM. It will work as well as
DVB-T with diversity reception but without the need for a diversity
receiver. China has adopted this modulation, DMB-TH. It will work even
better with diversity of course.

You will see it at the 2008 Olympics.

Bob Miller