Gail Nakada at Wireless Watch Japan, goes inside NHK, Japan’s national broadcaster, at the NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories open house yesterday.
The annual event is open to the public, this year’s show focused once again on digital TV broadcasting with three floors of cameras, servers, receivers and handheld devices. She checks out mobile phones receiving digital terrestrial broadcasting using MPEG-4, H.264, scheduled to begin in Japan by spring 2006. Both Vodafone and KDDI had demonstration models.
Mobile receivers drew packed crowds herded into Disneyland-style long lines waiting their turn to handle an 801SH Vodafone/Sharp CDMA Qualcomm handset. No bigger than a conventional cell phone, the 801SH has a hybrid split-screen displaying images on the upper half with the bottom reserved for scrolling data feeds and Web links to programming, etc.
Don’t you just love those reports from Wireless Watch Japan!
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