• First implementation of Windows Media 9 Series over DVB-H
• Efficient coding, reception and decoding for mobile applications
• Demonstration of flexibility of mobile DVB-H platform

IBC, Amsterdam (Stand 1.259):  NTL's Broadcast division has mounted the first demonstration of the transfer of Microsoft's Windows Media Video 9 Series over a DVB-H platform, enabling high quality pictures to be delivered to a Tablet PC at low data rates.  The demonstration shows the flexibility of the proposed DVB-H standard as a bearer for streamed video and multimedia content using the latest generation of high-efficiency codecs.

The demonstration, on NTL's stand at IBC, featured widescreen movie content encoded at 400 kbit/s and transmitted within the exhibition hall, producing high quality images on a Tablet PC fitted with a prototype DVB-H receiver from DiBcom, the leading provider of mobile DVB front-ends.

"A combination of the robust DVB-H technology plus the Tablet PC form factor makes for a novel implementation of Mobile Television," said Erin Cullen, Lead Product Manager at the Windows Digital Media division at Microsoft.  "We are pleased that our partners ntl have come up with this innovative application for DVB-H and Windows Media 9 Series."

Simon Mason, head of new product development in NTL's Broadcast division, added: "We are delighted to be able to demonstrate Windows Media 9 Series on yet another platform, showing the flexibility, interoperability and quality of both the codec and the DVB-H format."

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