Germany’s 5G Today project has started its field trial for TV over 5G networks with a remit to contribute towards wider standardization of broadcasting over cellular.
In part 8 of the series “Data transmission and storage”, consultant John Watkinson looks at some of the intricacies of RF transmission.
At the 2019 NAB Show, Globecast will launch Globecast Live, a turnkey live content solution that leverages a fully integrated contribution and Digital Media Hub (DMH) content processing workflow to deliver “any event to any screen.”
_460_286_70.jpg "Signs that the age of mobile broadcasting has arrived at NAB 2019 after many false starts.")
NAB CEO Gordon Smith’s criticism of Apple for failing to incorporate broadcast-capable chips in its mobile devices was timely for several reasons, even if it may fall on deaf ears.
The combination of high-resolution smartphones, 5G cellular networks and an overlay model effectively emulating digital terrestrial TV (DTT) networks will finally usher in mobile TV services at large scale.
The mobile video boom will continue over the next few years and consume an ever-greater proportion of overall global network backbone capacity, according to the latest update of the Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index (MVNI) Forecast (2017 – 2022).