Here
Comes BlackBerry TV
Dilithium, which offers multimedia delivery over mobile and broadband
networks, has announced the availability of live video and
video-on-demand (VoD) streaming support for BlackBerry handsets. The
company will use Dilithium Content Adapter (DCA) for the service.
What’s
DCA? The company explains that DCA supports Live and VoD streaming for
mobile devices, including Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson
and the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.
The DCA
solution is an infrastructure offering that can be deployed by operators
and service providers enabling their customers to access live or on
demand video content through the standard players and handset browsers.
It
supports the most live and pre-recorded video formats and performs
on-the-fly and on-demand transport, media formatting, and codec and
bitrate adaptation.
Customers do not need to install a special application on their handset,
and can access the video services via EDGE, Wi-Fi, or 3G networks,
depending on the BlackBerry model.
While
other players are also targeting TV on mobile market, the
Dilithium support will add to the growing
versatility of BlackBerry
devices. Among the recent initiatives,
MobiTV and CBS Mobile are offering TV on your mobiles. MobiTV now
delivers full-length episodes and clips from CBS Mobile, a channel
featuring primetime shows.
The DCA
live and VoD media adaption capabilities are based on Dilithium’s
patent-pending technologies and architecture that delivers on-the-fly
media adaptation. It supports phones and devices through RTSP, HTTP
(including progressive download), and MPEG2/H.264 TS.
It also
supports codecs such as, H.263, H.264, MPEG4, MPEG2, MJPEG, and popular
audio codecs. The DCA features a PHP-based high level API that offers
easy integration in operator and service provider frameworks and
workflows. It has built-in caching feature allowing reduction in
unnecessary adaptation while providing support for ad-insertion, says
the company.
Set up
in Sydney, Australia, Dilithium offers converged video solutions.
