CHAPTER 2
Introduction to Digital Multimedia
There must be an ideal world, a sort of mathematician’s paradise where everything happens as it does in textbooks.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
2.1 Introduction
When mobile TV was initially implemented, it was seen as a textbook case of transporting large-screen content to mobile devices. However, things did not work out as expected. This was no different from the way mobile websites had gone in the initial days of wireless access protocol or WAP. There was a certain uniqueness about the mobile world — the small screens, interactive applications, and creative users that made it a different world from the relatively passive large-screen TV.
The world of digital video is indeed very challenging. ...
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