"I wouldn't say we're at the tipping point," said John Taylor, a spokesman for LG Electronics, which helped develop the industry standard for mobile DTV. "But ... we anticipate that manufacturers will gear up their plans to introduce more products." Mobile DTV piggybacks on the same digital signals that broadcasters use to beam programming to regular TVs. A consumer watching mobile DTV on a smart phone, for example, doesn't have to worry about issues that can snarl streaming video on a wireless carrier's network.
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