Live mobile TV on an iPod touch
The Mobile Broadcast Receiver is one of the more interesting gadgets we’ve bumped into at Mobile World Congress this week. It’s basically a pocketable broadcast receiver that turns Wi-Fi-enabled phones and personal media players into mobile TVs.
The Mobile Broadcast Receiver has been developed by Packet Video (PV) and we saw it in action on an iPod touch.
Opening up mobile TV
Essentially, the PV hardware decodes a digital TV signal and repurposes it for use on the playback device. Apparently the receiver can tell what video codecs the playback device uses and adapt the stream accordingly - so it used QuickTime for the iPod touch, for example. And the quality was impressive, too.
tech.co.uk