Mobile TV is MyTV


Smart MyTVSmart Communications has finally launched the first commercially available Mobile TV service in the country. Dubbed MyTV, this service was officially launched at the NBC Tent at the Fort, Taguig City last week. We first caught a glimpse of this service back in April and now it’s available to the public. How is Mobile TV different from all the available video services now? They’re worlds apart. Except for the fact that they’re both video, they’re totally different from one another in the sense that one makes use of 3G to stream the broadcast while the other uses DVB-H to broadcast the video. End result? 3G streamed media is low in quality and allots a lot of buffering so it isn’t exactly smooth. DVB-H broadcasts, on the other hand, are crisp and clear and almost no buffering is done since it’s a live feed. Think of it as watching a movie through the Internet (3G streamed) and on TV (DVB-H). That’s how different they are. If you already have a DVB-H enabled phone such as the Nokia N92 or Samsung P930, you can check out the service for free until August 31, 2007.

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its better to create a software for diff. units not only in N92

Mobile TV via DVB-H isn’t exactly a software, but a technology which is why it is limited to certain handset models only. Similar to 3G wherein either your phone supports it or not, Mobile TV is the same way and currently, aside from Nokia, Samsung also has one too.