IIM student to bring movies on mobile
Source : SiliconIndia
Dated : 29/12/2006
India is all set to witness the usage mobile technology undergo a revolutionary change, thanks to an enterprising IIM student. Manoj Gupta, a PGPX student at IIM Ahmedabad, is planning to tap the commercial viability to develop the digital television technology through his own venture, reported The Economic Times.
The technology, coming with a high-quality and low-cost promise, will allow viewing television on a mobile phone just by inserting a chip. It will enable the subscriber to view television without switching on his cellular phone. “The user will be able to view TV on phone which will be connected to the mobile towers. This technology will provide better resolution at low cost with less complexity,” he was quoted.
Gupta, an IIT-Mumbai alumnus, is presently in talks with a US-based firm for investing in the technology and marketing the product in India. He is also planning to set up a chip design center in Pune or Bangalore to carry the project further. The new venture will offer mobile TV service to subscribers through cellular phone carriers using digital video broadcast handheld (DVBH).
“The semi-conductor industry is yet evolving in India and there is a lot of scope in the mobile TV segment. This is part of an effort to bring more of chip designing jobs to India,” Gupta, who has six years of experience in the semi-conductor industry, told ET.
With a lot of interest an investment in the Internet Protocol Television segment in the country, this seems a hot time for Gupta to market the product. “We will only be designing the technology and the US based firm will be launching the product in the market,” says Gupta.
Dated : 29/12/2006
India is all set to witness the usage mobile technology undergo a revolutionary change, thanks to an enterprising IIM student. Manoj Gupta, a PGPX student at IIM Ahmedabad, is planning to tap the commercial viability to develop the digital television technology through his own venture, reported The Economic Times.
The technology, coming with a high-quality and low-cost promise, will allow viewing television on a mobile phone just by inserting a chip. It will enable the subscriber to view television without switching on his cellular phone. “The user will be able to view TV on phone which will be connected to the mobile towers. This technology will provide better resolution at low cost with less complexity,” he was quoted.
Gupta, an IIT-Mumbai alumnus, is presently in talks with a US-based firm for investing in the technology and marketing the product in India. He is also planning to set up a chip design center in Pune or Bangalore to carry the project further. The new venture will offer mobile TV service to subscribers through cellular phone carriers using digital video broadcast handheld (DVBH).
“The semi-conductor industry is yet evolving in India and there is a lot of scope in the mobile TV segment. This is part of an effort to bring more of chip designing jobs to India,” Gupta, who has six years of experience in the semi-conductor industry, told ET.
With a lot of interest an investment in the Internet Protocol Television segment in the country, this seems a hot time for Gupta to market the product. “We will only be designing the technology and the US based firm will be launching the product in the market,” says Gupta.
Labels: Technology
posted by Himanshu Sheth @ 12/30/2006 01:43:00 AM
5 Comments
5 Comments:
Hi,
good to know about "it will enable the subscriber to view television without switching on his cellular phone. “The user will be able to view TV on phone which will be connected to the mobile towers. This technology will provide better resolution at low cost with less complexity,”
I have one good project idea in my mind,and now i am seeing right time to think about it. good inspiration from this article. new ideas, more comfort. :-)))
-Hiral shah
Hi,
Wow..Really wonderful idea..Himanshu you are going on right direction with right pace...Keep it up..
-Ajay Modi
Unfortunately Himanshu is my flatmate...
But his blog is really useful...Although he is not much useful here in the flat...
I love his blog...
Raat ko so jaya kar....Sone nahi deta..Ye teri Blogging...:)
Hi Hiral,
Thanks for the comment.Yes,I really feel technology is going in all the directions.There is TV on Mobile which enables us to watch TV on the cell phone.
Thats good to have an idea and now it seems lateral thinking is the key to surviving in this technological world!!!
Hi Ajay,
Thanks for your time.I really think it is very important to have the right kind of information on the blogs which would give readership.Thanks for your encouraging comment.
And yes,one thing is that we need to take time off our busy schedule to gather information and also to write some informative article on the blog.Hence,for this I think late night is the best time to do this and hence I have chosen this time to do something productive!!!
-Himanshu
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