Streaming mobile video the next BIG thing?

At Mobile Wireless World it seemed like the mobile TV technology vendors who require a relatively large upfront infrastructure investment, such as DVB-H or DVB-SH, were facing the economic downturn in a bad way. On the other hand, mobile streaming video system vendors got lots of attention, being an immediate and relatively low-cost alternative.  When I saw live mobile streaming TV for the first time on my iPhone just a few weeks ago, watching the US presidential inauguration, I was quite disappointed with the quality of Ustream, the first iPhone live mobile TV app. The program crashed every few minutes and also the video quality was partly bad, so that the whole experience made me believe that this is not yet working. At MWC in Barcelona, though, I saw quite a few demos that did an impressive job in delivering high quality live mobile video streaming over Wifi, 3G and even 2G network connections. Will that mean that 2009 is the year where mobile video streaming makes it big? We will see. Some people clearly think so. See e.g. here, here and also here.

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