Super Session “Mobile Video and Mobile TV — Beyond YouTube,” slotted for April 16, will be keynoted by Qualcomm’s Peggy Johnson and the panel will include Sinclair’s Mark Aitken, Mobile Content Venture's Salil Dalvi, DVB’s Peter Siebert, Syncbak’s Jack Perry and MobiTV’s Cedric Fernandes.
NAB 2012
NAB Show To Explore Future Of Mobile DTV
This year’s NAB Show will present a Super Session on mobile DTV titled “Mobile Video and Mobile TV — Beyond YouTube,” presented by NAB Labs. During the session, scheduled for Monday, April 16, in Las Vegas, industry experts will offer their perspectives on the future of mobile video and mobile broadcasting.
Consumer desire for media content anywhere and anytime continues to tax telecom wireless networks’ ability to deliver video via their one-to-one architecture, NAB says. As a result, wireless companies are imposing data limits on services that have raised concerns among content providers and consumers. On the other hand, broadcasters’ one-to-many architecture has an edge in terms of delivering video to mass audiences with few constraints, an advantage that could serve the industry well in terms of meeting consumer expectations, the association adds.
Peggy Johnson, who heads global market development for Qualcomm, will deliver the session’s keynote address. At Qualcomm, Johnson leads efforts to commercialize new business opportunities, nurture early stage initiatives and develop strategic relationships. In a previous role as executive vice president of Qualcomm’s Americas and India division, Johnson played a key role in the global development and adoption of 3G wireless broadband technology and services in those regions.
Moderated by Jim Burger, member, Dow Lohnes PLLC, the session’s panel will include Mark Aitken, VP advanced technology, Sinclair Broadcast Group; Salil Dalvi, Co-GM, Mobile Content Venture; Peter Siebert, executive director, DVB Project Office; Jack Perry, CEO and founder, Syncbak; and Cedric Fernandes, VP technology, MobiTV.
Panelists will examine various global technologies and potential business models for future mobile TV use in light of consumer demand. Discussion topics include the effects of data limits put in place by wireless providers, how broadcasters can leverage home grown technologies to their advantage and how the broadcast industry can meet consumers’ changing expectations.
Details on the NAB Show, to be held April 14-19 in Las Vegas, are available here.
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Christina Perez says:
March 7, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Most of these players are of the “make broadcast TV pay TV” crowd. Where are the advocates for POTS, mobile digital style? Unencrypted, in the clear local broadcast mobile TV signals will keep broadcast TV the primary mass medium. But the broadband greedsters have insinuated their pay TV advocates into the mobile TV mix. Broadcasters, be wary. Protect your turf. Don’t fall for the second revenue stream canard. Keep your basis service in the free and clear and then explore add-on pay channels. Any attempt to make OTA mobile TV a sign-up subscription service will provoke a fierce outcry from the public, and from Congress. Consumer advocates will lead the charge.