TV on your smartphone without internet: Direct-to-mobile broadcasting pilot study in NCR soon - Firstpost

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New Delhi: A aviator survey connected direct-to-mobile broadcasting, which has the imaginable to heighten the scope of tv manifold, volition beryllium carried retired successful the nationalist superior portion soon, Information and Broadcasting Secretary Apurva Chandra said connected Thursday.

Addressing the Big Picture Summit organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry here, Chandra said direct-to-mobile broadcasting was the “next large thing” for tv media arsenic it has the imaginable to summation viewership manifold.

 “Currently, determination are astir 20 crore tv households successful the country. India has implicit 60 crore smartphone users and 80 crore broadband users. Reach of tv media is acceptable to beryllium overmuch higher,” helium said.

He said IIT-Kanpur and Sankhya Labs person carried retired a aviator survey connected direct-to-mobile broadcasting successful Bengaluru and were present launching different survey successful either Noida oregon someplace adjacent Delhi.

What is direct-to-mobile broadcasting?

As the sanction suggests, it’s fundamentally TV connected smartphones, but without an progressive net connection. It works likewise to FM vigor successful that a receiver built into the gadget tin entree vigor frequencies.

The Broadband and broadcast technologies are combined to alteration mobile phones to person section integer TV feeds, thereby enabling multimedia contented to beryllium broadcast straight to smartphones.

The exertion is aimed astatine straight broadcasting citizen-centric accusation and countering fake news, issuing exigency alerts, and providing assistance during calamities. It tin beryllium utilized to broadcast unrecorded news, sports events etc. All of this, however, is without immoderate buffering that excessively without consuming net data.

Consumers tin also, with direct-to-mobile, watercourse contented from Video connected Demand (VoD) and Over The Top (OTT) services similar Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hotstar without exhausting information limit.

The transportation of video postulation from mobile to broadcast web would escaped up bandwidth and decongest mobile spectrum. This tin effect into reduced telephone driblet soil amended net speed.

India has implicit 1.2 cardinal mobile telephone users and 600 cardinal smartphone users who devour overmuch accusation and amusement via mobile devices.

With the assistance of direct-to-mobile invaluable contented tin beryllium straight provided to radical successful far-flung areas without mobile connectivity. Even successful the areas that bash person mobile connectivity not everyone has entree to unlimited high-speed internet. But with the request for net transportation taken retired of the representation anyone who has a smartphone, nary substance wherever they are oregon whether they person high-speed internet, tin beryllium provided with important information.

With inputs from PTI

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