LG, Samsung Sign Mobile TV Pact
May 14, 2008, 7:42 AM by Eric M. Zeman
LG and Samsung have proposed that technology developed jointly by the two companies should become the North American mobile digital TV standard. Their technology is hinged on existing terrestrial digital TV signals. They are pitching it to the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), which is set to determine a mobile DTV standard by 2009. The standard could allow mobile DTV technology to be built into handheld devices, including mobile phones. Since it uses existing signals, it could rival Qualcomm's MediaFLO.