CHAPTER 10
DMB and China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB)
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
10.1 Introduction to DMB Services
A new era began in October 2004 when the world's first broadcast mobile TV services went live in Japan with the launch of satellite-based S-DMB services. The T-DMB services were soon to follow—these were launched in December 2005 in Korea. The DMB services were the culmination of many years of work in designing of protocols, air interfaces, and chipsets that would enable the broadcasting of multimedia to mobile devices. Prior to this, the only unicast mobile TV was available through ...
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