IPWireless Mobile TV show out of new generation on IPad

At Mobile World Congress, chip maker IPWireless is demonstrating a new technology called the Integrated Mobile Broadcast (IMB), which will allow operators to offer mobile TV on tablets and smartphones like Apple's iPhone and iPad and Samsung's Galaxy and Galaxy card.

Of these devices, the Galaxy Samsung with IMB integrated. The Samsung Galaxy S is equipped with a fake out, who the receiver IMB built into it, and Apple products have a receiver that is connected to the docking connector on the bottom of the device. The goal with these last two products is to expand the number of products that users can watch transmissions IMB, according to Keith Dewar, vice president marketing of IPWireless in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

The technology is now being in the United Kingdom from O2, Orange and Vodafone with a total of about 200 users.

The adoption of IMB will result in better picture quality than the streaming TV on existing 3 G networks, said IPWireless. The image quality has demonstrated at Mobile World Congress doesn't suffer from the pixelation that makes video on 3 G networks. Also the picture looks surprisingly strong, even if the resolution is only 320 x 240 pixels. A change of channel takes a couple of seconds, and the first image appears distorted briefly before it settles.

In addition to TV, IMB can be used for any service that mostly downloads data to the user, in the process of making efficient use of bandwidth available to operators.

IMB sends usage data of spectrum reserved for services of TDD (Time Division duplexing), which uses a channel for sending and receiving data alternately. The operator can configure your network to use the spectrum available for sending data to the Subscriber, which is a good fit for transmission services. The most current 3 G networks send data to and from the Subscriber using separate channels, which do not allow the same flexibility.

Many European operators TDD spectrum has received some, when they were awarded 3 G licences. In total, more than 150 operators across 60 countries covering more than half a billion Subscribers just requested 5 MHz spectrum-TDD needed to implement IMB, IPWireless.

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