World’s First Live Video Broadcast Solution From a Mobile Phone to a Mass Audience
26 April 2006 by axxxr Revolutionary Technology Opens Doors to Citizen Journalism Via a 3G Phone Direct to the DVB-H Network for Quality Worldwide Broadcast.
ComVu,a leading company in the personal mobile video broadcasting industry,today announced the world’s first live video broadcasting from a 3G camera phone direct to the DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld) network.ComVu is working closely with Modeo,a pioneer in mobile television broadcast technology, to provide millions of citizen reporters with the ability to broadcast breaking news live to a global television audience.ComVu’s demonstration of user-generated video broadcasting using Windows Media technologies from a camera phone to a Modeo-enabled device will be hosted at Microsoft’s booth SL1161 at the NAB 2006 convention in Las Vegas, April 24-27. Traditionally, broadcast television networks were the exclusive domains of the big media giants. In the last decade, streaming media over the Internet allowed for a much larger number of organizations to participate in broadcasting; however, it lacked scalability and ease of use. Now, ComVu and its partners offer the best of both worlds using Windows Media technologies and the DVB-H technologies it is scalable, available for average citizens to broadcast and provided in the mobile realm.DVB-H is the latest development within the set of DVB transmission standards and meets the specific requirements of handheld, battery-powered receivers.The NAB demonstrations will use camera phones leveraging the Windows Mobile 5.0 powered camera phones, equipped with ComVu’s PocketCaster software to broadcast live video to Modeo-enabled devices. ComVu’s live broadcasts are delivered using Windows Media technologies, including Windows Media Video and Windows Media Audio (WMA). For more information please visit: www.comvu.com
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