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News Release from: Frontier Silicon
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 March 2005
Demonstration pre-empts German T-DMB
trials
This week Frontier Silicon is demonstrating a complete mobile digital television chip solution in advance of terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) trials in Germany later this year.
At this week's meeting of the Bayerische Landeszentrale fur neue Medien (BLM) in Munich to discuss mobile multimedia services, Frontier Silicon is demonstrating a complete mobile digital television chip solution that the company expects to support manufacturers with for the potential roll-out of terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) trials in Germany later this year and rest of Europe eventually The company said it fully supports the BLM initiative and is working with manufacturers and broadcasters to participate in a pilot project for T-DMB in Bavaria starting within the next few months
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Anthony Sethill, CEO of Frontier Silicon, commented: "One of the biggest issues facing network operators and content providers is how to source mobile TV terminals that make it viable for consumers to watch broadcasts on their handsets without draining the battery too quickly".
"That is why we have been working with leading manufacturers such as Samsung to drive down power consumption in the handset to the absolute minimum while delivering a state-of-the-art RF tuner and digital baseband chipset".
The live demonstration in Munich is part of a discussion initiated by the BLM to invite participants for its DMB-Regensburg advanced digital broadcasting pilot project.
The meeting participants will get a chance to evaluate technical solutions, content, programmes and services, network operation and receivers for end-users, and will include the live T-DMB demonstration featuring the latest chip set announced especially for mobile digital television by Frontier Silicon.
Also taking part in the discussions in this two-day event are organisations from Korea, where mobile handset TV services will begin in June, based on T-DMB.
A key component of the handsets to be deployed in Korea for the launch will be the T-DMB solution from Frontier Silicon comprising both RF front-end (the tuner) plus digital baseband processor.
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