Viewers in ten cities across the country including the four metros will soon be able to watch Doordarshan and nineteen other channels offered by Prasar Bharati on their smartphone, tablet or laptop for free.
Officials said that the national broadcaster has charted out an aggressive plan to expand the range of its mobile TV services to at least 40 major cities and the services are likely to start in the first ten cities before the end of year 2013.
“Prasar Bharati has in the past also experimented with Mobile TV service and in 2007 a pilot project had been set up in Delhi. However the technology used at that time only allowed signals to be transmitted in a radius of 10 kilometres.
“The technology that will be used now would be Digital Video Broadcast - terrestrial (DVB-T2) which can take high quality signals in a radius of 90 kilometres,” an official source said. Prasar Bharati officials hoped that the launch of the advanced mobile TV services would give them a strong grip over a new segment of market? the smart phone owning next generation- whose numbers which are substantial even now are growing at a very fast pace.“One of the biggest advantages this service would offer is that there would be no buffering and the clarity would be high definition. It would be like watching normal high definition TV on the move,” the official said.
Officials said that the national broadcaster has charted out an aggressive plan to expand the range of its mobile TV services to at least 40 major cities and the services are likely to start in the first ten cities before the end of year 2013.
“Prasar Bharati has in the past also experimented with Mobile TV service and in 2007 a pilot project had been set up in Delhi. However the technology used at that time only allowed signals to be transmitted in a radius of 10 kilometres.
“The technology that will be used now would be Digital Video Broadcast - terrestrial (DVB-T2) which can take high quality signals in a radius of 90 kilometres,” an official source said. Prasar Bharati officials hoped that the launch of the advanced mobile TV services would give them a strong grip over a new segment of market? the smart phone owning next generation- whose numbers which are substantial even now are growing at a very fast pace.“One of the biggest advantages this service would offer is that there would be no buffering and the clarity would be high definition. It would be like watching normal high definition TV on the move,” the official said.
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