Mobile TV notes from NAB - encoding advances and other observations

LAS VEGAS – Tuesday's sessions at the National Association of Broadcasters convention on Tuesday focused on mobile TV – that is, video to your cell phone or iPod or other portable device, as profiled here.When it comes to sending video to mobile phones over wireless networks, it isn't an easy thing to do, technically, but British company Snell & Wilcox is using NAB to show off its new mobile content processing and encoding capabilities. While broadcasters on one hand are producing lovely TV shows for a wider, lush, screen, they don't want to reproduce the production effort to make the...