DiBcom.info - Revolutionizing Mobile Technology

Mobile TV is a huge industry which everyone wants to be a part of; it’s also nothing without technology. Behind the scenes there are companies like DiBcom, a French manufacturer of semiconductors which enable mobile TV reception everywhere and at speeds exceeding 250 km/h. Its latest offering, a DVB-T chipset allows Digital TV reception in moving vehicles for any portable device. DiBcom’s technology enables PC users to receive Digital Terrestrial TV channels with high video quality; mobile phone and game users get enhanced reception; and passengers can enjoy TV within the comfort of their own cars. Currently DiBcom has over 300 mobile TV trials across the globe and has deals with major European mobile carriers.

“DiBcom vision is to enable the mobile experience over hundreds of kilometres in a moving car or train travelling at more than 200 km/h. DiBcom has developed algorithms that track the fast changes in signals while moving and computes in real time the necessary corrections, thus overcoming the main technological barrier to a clean reception even in presence of echoes and Doppler effects. This technology can be deployed without additional requirements or changes in professional TV transmission systems and equipment using terrestrial digital TV. It is potentially hundreds of millions of cell phones, cars and PCs that will receive TV anywhere at anytime and on the move.”

The Mobile TV market is a hot one. DiBcom has the advantageous position of producing DVB-H sets, which is being favored by the European Commission over other systems. The US also supports DVB-H although competition is stiffer.

Will Mobile TV take off? Do people really want to watch feature length content on their tiny mobile screens? Will the DVB-H beat out the competition?