LG and Samsung team-up against Qualcomm in fight for US mobile TV standard

In a case of oh shiznit, LG and Samsung are combining forces to protect their mobile TV interests in the US. With Qualcomm's proprietary MediaFLO digital broadcast technology rapidly gaining a mobile TV foothold in the US (thanks to AT&T and Verizon) and Europe standardizing on DVB-H, it seems that LG and Samsung (the once proud and gloating parents of the DMB standard) have little choice but to support the ATSC's attempt to create the ATSC-M/H standard in the US... about three years too late. Of course, the ultimate victor will have very little to do with what's best for the consumer and everything to do with who is most successful at lobbying the government. Oh, did that sound bitter? Good.

[Kennii @ May 14th 2008 2:51AM]

wow.

[gabe @ May 14th 2008 2:55AM]

u are the weakest link. Goodbye

Will it blend?

Piitb

Blah blah. Fuking blah

[ClaMs @ May 14th 2008 3:00AM]

All these acronyms hurt my mind. What does it all mean?

[Ridgecity @ May 14th 2008 3:11AM]

That picture almost made me forget these companies all are vicious business monopolizing bastards...

I actually had Moe's haircut for a few months... but It actually lowered my CSL (chick scoring level) by 64%...

[Esat Dedezade @ May 14th 2008 7:08AM]

Only by 64%!?

[anabouboula @ May 14th 2008 3:12AM]

Take that Sony!

[lartmander @ May 14th 2008 3:20AM]

I wouldn't quite say that LG and samsung are directly teaming up against Qualcomm. There is a place for the ATSC-M/H standard for local broadcasters (hopefully broadcast for free), so that MediaFLO can operate as a premium service which will broadcast movie, espn and such...

and then you have the local TV stations broadcasting their own ATSC-M/H. I believe having both makes mobile TV more marketable.

Similar to how Korea implements their T-DMB mobile TV systems...

[Adam Zey @ May 14th 2008 3:57AM]

Funny, my brand new Samsung phone uses a Qualcomm chipset.

[milton thuroughgood III @ May 14th 2008 5:09AM]

buawahhahahahaha

[johnny5 @ May 14th 2008 7:01AM]

Bitter or not, it sounded true.

[Jamar @ May 14th 2008 10:18AM]

Bah- why not ISDB-T?

[Karl Viklund @ May 14th 2008 10:41AM]

LOL @ picture

[thehumanyawn @ May 15th 2008 12:09AM]

Let's just cut the crap and go 1seg.