You write an article, naturally everything changes almost instantly. Intel, Motorola, Nokia and Texas Instruments have clubbed together to create a mobile TV alliance that will promote DVB-H. Would have been useful for me to know about it before I wrote this piece for iSight, but that's journalism for you.
Still, I don't think it changes things too much: these guys were all heavy promoters of DVB-H, as is much of the industry. All this means is they're working together on it. Given the number of alliances, groups, unions and so on that are promoting one technology or the other in various other fields without much to show for it, I'm sure it'll have a similar effect on the mobile TV market. The only thing that matters there are the customers: no matter how interested network providers are, without consumer interest, it's for nothing. And if the 3G market has shown us anything, it's that consumers really aren't that impressed with what network providers have to offer beyond voice and text.
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