Mobile TV to take off in 2009
25 May 2007
New research has alleged that TV shown on mobile phones will report a large boom in demand in 2009, continuing after this time.
According to Multimedia Research Group in the US, 53 million mobile phone handsets with TV incorporated onto them will have been snapped up by 2009. This will increase to 82 million across the globe by 2011.
The research group’s previous estimate as to the uptake of mobile TV was around half the level it was after this latest study and these types of mobile phone will sell in 55 countries.
Peter White, the report’s author, insisted: “Most of these new handsets will deliver Quarter Video Graphics Array quality screens, where voices and lips are synchronised, where there is no shadowing on the screen, and where the resolution is good enough to watch for 30 minutes at a time and beyond.”
He went on to state that although only a handful of mobile phones had been introduced to the market that implemented TV technology, there are currently more than 80 trials in process around the world.
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