TU Media has been able to acquire the simultaneous re-transmission rights from MBC according to an interesting article I just read. This represents a big step for TU Media but it comes two and a half years too late.
As TU Media started operations in mid 2005 it tried to acquire simultaneous re-transmission rights from broadcasters. […]
Several Korean newspapers (such as The Electronic Times) reported today about how the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has made T-DMB one out of four global standards for mobile TV, the others being DVB-H, MediaFLO and 1seg.
All standards have their pros and cons of course. T-DMB is most extensively used and tested, with South Korea […]
There are rumors in Korean press that SK Telecom is hesitant to inject more money in its S-DMB business and TU Media, because reaching the break-even is unlikely. Although subscribers have reached almost 1.3 million in September 2007 TU Media has generated only losses. Together with initial investments of about 250 million USD overall this […]
Many people from all over the world claim that Korea is the most strong player in Mobile TV. True. But by what means?
If we look at the numbers of who use mobile TV in Korea, the answer is ‘YES’. (Now more than 7 million people watch mobile TV in Korea). From the point of profitable […]
A lot of people in Europe and the U.S. are wondering which contents will become the “killer content” for mobile TV, which will make people embrace this new service. As you might know mobile TV has been introduced in Korea in 2005 and as of today has approximately 7 million users (2 million S-DMB / […]
Based on requests we receive and also monitoring global media one area of huge interest is mobile TV. In most parts of the world it is a feature soon to be introduced by broadcasters or MNO’s, e.g. BBC and Channel 4 have recently announced to offer mobile TV in the upcoming year.
In order to […]
T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) Phone meets the golden age. In second quarter, the sales of T-DMB Phone increased about 3.4% comparing to first quarter.
That is interesting results because total number of 3G service phone user keep increasing and KTF, one of MNO in Korea, focus their capability on 3G services such as Video call.
However, […]
The Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) users surpassed 6-million. This figure means 1.3 out of 10 Koreans has DMB player.According to the survey announced on June 14th by the Ministry of information and Communication, after DMB service started on 2005, the number of TDMB players sold is 5.3 million and the subscribers of SDMB service is […]
Have you ever regret after missing your favourite TV programme while you were stuck in the heavy traffic? Have you ever supposed it would be much better if you have your own TV and thus not fighting for the TV with your brother or sister?
If yes, here is good news. As long as you possess […]
Last March, RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong) asked me for an interview on Mobile TV in Korea. RTHK producer Annie, who was in charge of ‘Media Watch’, visited South Korea to film the competitiveness of Korean Mobile TV which was commercialized in for the first in the Globe. (You can get more information on Korean […]
