Modeo's 10 predictions for mobile TV

Modeo's president Michael Schueppert listed his top 10 predictions for mobile TV at the DVB World Forum:

• Mobile phones will only serve half the mobile TV market, other devices will become popular
• Biggest battles over next three years will be between content providers and carriers, not competing technologies
• DVB-H and FLO will succeed, DAB-based mobile TV standards and others will fail because of lack of industry support
• Media codecs Windows Media A/V and H.264/aacPlus will not harmonize
• Podcasting will be big for mobile TV
• Modeo's "prescient" use of L-band spectrum will be imitated in Europe and Asia
• The "unnecessary" number of electronic service guides confuse the market and must be harmonized or eliminated by the end of 2006
• Voting via "live" contact with a TV program will be most powerful interactive feature
• The youth market will be the grand prize, only prize (18-35) for mobile TV
• By 2009 every major broadcast channel will launch repurposed content of their programming for mobiles.

For more on Modeo's mobile TV predictions:
- see this article from EE Times