NAB 2012 ANALYSIS: Cool ideas for mobile broadcast are coming (not cellular), but in Canada?

LAS VEGAS – You couldn’t swing a set of dead analog rabbit ears at the Las Vegas Convention Centre this week without hitting a broadcaster or broadcast supplier building a business case –or in many cases, even deploying – mobile broadcast TV. We’re not talking about TV delivered by mobile phone companies to phones and tablets (for a subscription fee and data charges), but free, off-air digital TV to the phones and tablets of Americans. Right now, a few companies like Belkin and Siano have manufactured some hardware plugins which are essentially little one-to-two-inch USB devices with a short antenna...