Open Mobile Video Coalition creates Mobile DTV Forum

Television broadcaster association the Open Mobile Video Coalition has established the OMVC Mobile DTV Forum, bringing into the organization non-broadcast members including electronics manufacturers Dell, Harris, LG Electronics and Samsung Mobile. According to OMVC president Vince Sadusky, Mobile DTV Forum members are expected to make significant contributions to the association's efforts to build a thriving marketplace for mobile digital TV--members will have direct access to the OMVC's Technical Advisory Group and will work closely with its board of directors. The OMVC notes it is looking to attract additional OEM members along with software, service and content providers.

The Open Mobile Video Coalition represents over 900 TV stations across the U.S.--its 36 broadcaster members own and operate over 500 commercial television stations, as well as Association of Public Television Stations, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Public Broadcasting Service outlets. In May 2010, the OMVC launched a Washington D.C.-area trial transmitting 23 TV channels of local content to about 400 participants accessing the service via phones and portable DVD players equipped with mobile DTV chips. At this week's CES event in Las Vegas, the OMVC will sponsor the Mobile DTV TechZone, promising demonstrations of more than two dozen mobile DTV products including a 3D-enabled LG device.

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