LG and Samsung team on mobile DTV standard

LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics announced they will partner to develop mobile digital TV technologies, committing to a tag-team effort to persuade the non-profit Advanced Television Systems Committee to select their platform as the single common in-band mobile DTV standard for the North American market. The LG/Samsung mobile standard employs existing terrestrial digital TV broadcast bandwidth, promising minimum equipment investment and no impact on conventional digital TV platforms. The ATSC is expected to name its North American mobile/handheld DTV standard in early 2009 following completion of technology trials spearheaded by the Open Mobile Video Coalition broadcasters group.

For more on the LG/Samsung effort:
- read this release

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