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Viewers in ten cities across the country, including the four metros, will soon be able to watch Doordarshan and nineteen other channels offered by Prasar Bharati on their smartphone, tablet or laptop for free.
Officials said the national broadcaster has charted out an aggressive plan to expand the range of its mobile TV services to at least 40 major cities and the services are likely to start in the first ten cities before 2013- end.
"Prasar Bharati has in the past also experimented with Mobile TV service and in 2007 a pilot project had been set up in Delhi. However the technology used at that time only allowed signals to be transmitted in a radius of 10km. The technology that will be used now would be Digital Video Broadcast - terrestrial (DVB-T2) which can take high quality signals in a radius of 90km," a source said.
Prasar Bharati officials hoped that the launch of the new advanced mobile TV services would give them a strong grip over the new smartphone-owning generation — already a huge segment but still growing.
Courtesy : TOI
Officials said the national broadcaster has charted out an aggressive plan to expand the range of its mobile TV services to at least 40 major cities and the services are likely to start in the first ten cities before 2013- end.
"Prasar Bharati has in the past also experimented with Mobile TV service and in 2007 a pilot project had been set up in Delhi. However the technology used at that time only allowed signals to be transmitted in a radius of 10km. The technology that will be used now would be Digital Video Broadcast - terrestrial (DVB-T2) which can take high quality signals in a radius of 90km," a source said.
Prasar Bharati officials hoped that the launch of the new advanced mobile TV services would give them a strong grip over the new smartphone-owning generation — already a huge segment but still growing.
Courtesy : TOI
