Delphi, XM Unveil Handheld Satellite Radio Receiver
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XM Satellite Radio and radio manufacturer Delphi yesterday introduced the Delphi XM MyFi, a portable, handheld satellite radio receiver the companies hope will lure more consumers to a medium currently limited to car and home units.
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XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. XMSR.O chief executive officer Hugh Panero on Wednesday said he expected satellite radio and cellphone services to converge within the next five years.
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(InfoWorld) - Watching TV on a mobile phone could get more interesting next year with new technologies that promise to bring TiVo-like recording functionality to portable devices. Texas Instruments is demonstrating PVR (personal video recording) capabilities for mobiles at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam this week. It is using its own Hollywood digital TV chip and OMAP 2 multimedia processor, along with software from partners PacketVideo and Software Systems (S3). The technology allows people to record a TV program on their mobile phone and then watch it later, on the train on the way to work, for example. The TI package also provides "picture-in-picture" capabilities, allowing a person to watch a prerecorded program and also track a live sports event in a smaller, on-screen window. The PVR technology should find its way into mobile phones in 2007, TI said. It didn't name any handset makers but most of the big vendors, including Samsung ElectronicsÂ and Nokia, are marketing phones for TV viewing. The companies hope the PVR capabilities will draw more people to mobile TV, which the telecommunications industry has been marketing heavily as a way to generate more revenue from consumers and make use of the high-speed 3G wireless networks that operators have been building. Predictions vary for how quickly mobile TV will take off. In-Stat predicts there will be 3.4 million mobile TV subscribers by the end of the year, jumping to 102 million by 2010. Strategy Analytics Inc., another researcher, said the hype around mobile TV remains out of proportion to the evidence of consumer interest. Including PVR capabilities improves the value proposition of mobile TV, but it's unclear whether it will make more consumers willing to pay for it, said Strategy Analytics analyst Nitesh Patel. Offering a picture within a picture on a small portable handset screen is "a bit ambitious," he noted. "It will be interesting to see how this products ties into how much memory gets bundled into handset," he said. "I'm presuming that a lot of memory will be required to store a 1.5 hour movie." If the video is recorded using the H.264 standard, a gigabyte of memory would be enough to store about three hours of 30-frames-per-second video for display on a QVGA 320-by-240-resolution screen, a TI spokeswoman said. Phone makers would decide whether to use flash memory or a hard disk, and how much memory to offer. The demonstration at IBC used TI's DTV1000 Hollywood processor, which is based on the DVB-H mobile TV standard and combines a tuner, demodulator, decoder and some memory on one chip. It also uses its OMAP2430 processor, which can decode two TV channels simultaneously, providing the picture-in-picture capability. The device used was a hybrid phone/PDA built for TI by PacketVideo for the purpose of the demonstration. The OMAP chip has video-out capabilities, which means people on the road could watch their prerecorded TV content on a TV in a hotel room, for example, so long as the phone maker provides the right outputs. Other developments are under way to make mobile TV more palatable for consumers. Samsung said this week it is developing a new display driver that adjusts the brightness of a display according to ambient lighting conditions. Due for mass production at the end of this year, it It should make displays easier to view in broad daylight, Samsung said.
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XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (XMSR.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday introduced a handheld portable version of its satellite radio, hoping to extend demand for its service
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Texas Instruments have announced the development of the wireless industry&#39;s first digital TV on a single chip for mobile phones, which will capture broadcast signals and allow mobile phone users to watch live TV program broadcasts.
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Satellite radio has a more promising future than you think.
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Software radio could offer an elegant solution to what a vexing problem: how to have a single handset communicate across multiple networks.
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Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. SIRI.O   on Tuesday introduced its first pocket-sized portable radio   that allows subscribers to listen to live broadcasts and to   digital music from their personal collections.
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Wireless broadband and satellite TV -- together at last.
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Doubles the Number of Onscreen Channels Displayed     Users of smartphones and wireless handheld PDAs now have even more choice and control of their mobile audio experience with the latest version of SelectRadio software.
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At a press event in New York City Wednesday night, electronics manufacturer Delphi introduced its third SkyFi radio, molding together the popular in car XM radio with a portable unit.
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Top US satellite radio service XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc on Wednesday said it has signed a deal to air games from Major League Baseball for the next 11 years in a deal worth $650 million.
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RF Code's M220 tag reader identifies equipment using handhelds and Bluetooth.
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Top U.S. satellite radio service XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc on Wednesday said it has signed a deal to air games from Major League Baseball for the next 11 years in a deal worth &#36;650 million.
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New patent application filed by satellite radio leader details plans for recording and other capabilities.
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XM Radio, which offers a subscription to commercial-free radio via satellite, is set to expand its services to online music. Dubbed XM Radio Online, the new offering will launch in early October and cost $7.99 USD per month for unlimited listening. Current XM subscribers can sign up to the online service for only $3.99 USD per month. XM has partnered with Dell to offer 30 days of free XM Radio Online to purchasers of new computers.
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I'm rooting for satellite radio to succeed. (It's been just three years since XM launched the first satellite radio service.) How come? The appeal of XM and Sirius becomes obvious to folks who are turned off by excessive and dumb commercials, tired formats and static on much of what passes for AM and FM nowadays.