MultiChoice taps S3’s onHandTV for mobile broadcast TV services

The pay-TV operator is looking to further develop its DVB-H operations.

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Feb 5, 2008

MultiChoice has selected Silicon & Software Systems (S3)’s onHand TV software for DVB-H to further develop its interactive mobile broadcast TV services.

MultiChoice is one of the largest pay-TV operators in Africa, with operators in 47 countries on the African continent and adjacent Indian Ocean islands. Its DStv Mobile business unit is in the process of testing DVB-H mobile TV transmission technology for possible use during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The company has already used the technology to launch commercial DVB-H services in Namibia, Kenya and Nigeria.

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The software adds digital TV capability to the navigation device.

The DVB-H service will be delivered over a newly developed high-speed 3G network.

Operators will launch DVB-H services by the end of the year.

S3 and Sofia Digital to demonstrate Java mobile TV client at IBC2007 promo image

The companies have developed the client, which is based on the proposed JSR 272 Mobile Broadcast Standard, for O2.

In 2006, 3 Italia was one of the world's first mobile operators to offer a DVB-H mobile TV service

The end of Spain’s experiment in mobile TV is another blow to the struggling DVB-H format chosen by the European Union.

The company will use the Rhozet Carbon Coder video transcoding solution to deliver mobile TV over its DVB-H network.

The telco is targeting broadcasters and operators launching DVB-H/DVB-SH operations.