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In the August 18, 2009 Issue:

• South Asian operators show interest in mobile TV at BroadcastAsia; few have firm plans for deployments
• India's Bharti Airtel embraces three-screen future
• Mirics continues to advance PCTV agenda with support for Japan's 1seg
• Television Asia Plus finds Asian viewers watching mobile TV; profitable business models still elusive
• New TeamCast CMMB/DTMB modulator aimed at Chinese market

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 Top Story
South Asian operators show interest in mobile TV at BroadcastAsia; few have firm plans for deployments

The conversion to terrestrial DTV is the immediate focus, and some are considering ISDB-T.

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 Industry News
India's Bharti Airtel embraces three-screen future

The Globecomm IP-based media processing center takes content from multiple sources and distributes it across DTH, IPTV and mobile systems.

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Singapore aims to be Asia's new media capital

The government's Media Fusion Plan provides a national new media blueprint.

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Indonesia mobile TV debut launched by PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, PT Indosat

Indonesia’s two largest telecom operators are bringing more than 17,000 islands into the mobile digital TV era.

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GSMA launches Mobile World Live portal

The new online portal draws together information resources for the mobile communications industry.

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Light Reading China to launch TelcoTV Asia 2009 in Shanghai

The three-screen video event in October will feature mobile TV heavyweights SARFT and China Mobile.

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 Partnership Deals
Mirics continues to advance PCTV agenda with support for Japan's 1seg

Skycast and Quincy Digital have selected Mirics’ FlexiTV receiver for the Japanese ultraportable PC market.

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India's Doordarshan ready to try again with DVB-H

This time, the state-operated broadcaster aims to hook up with a private partner, reports Indiquest Research.

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 Mobile TV Testing & Research
Television Asia Plus finds Asian viewers watching mobile TV; profitable business models still elusive

Younger viewers are driving strong mobile TV markets in Japan and Korea.

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Analog TV to continue dominating worldwide mobile TV landscape, predicts Forward Concepts

Demand will remain strong in China, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe.

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 New Products & Technology
New TeamCast CMMB/DTMB modulator aimed at Chinese market

The MCX-2000 is designed and developed for fast integration of all the core modulator technology.

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Siano CMMB receiver chip meets China Mobile conditional access specs

The SMS1186 mainly targets mobile phones and small cards.

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I-O Data joins iPhone mobile TV party with multipurpose 1seg TV tuner

The SEG Clip GV-SC310 is a tiny USB 1seg TV tuner for the PC, iPod Touch and iPhone.

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