The global sales of TV handsets that supporting S-DMB standard reached 4.46 million units in 2005. It is forecasted that by the end of 2009, the global sales of TV handset will exceed 42 million units. The sales of TV handset that supporting DVB-H standard will greatly increase in the near future.

The Diversification Trend of China’s TV Handset Standards, the Provider of TV Handset Solutions will take Muli-model and Multi-frequency-range as the Access to market.

In China, there will be many TV handset standards at the same time. Currently, among the three trial cities, Shanghai adopts T-DMB/L-Band frequency range; Beijing and Guangzhou adopt T-DMB/Band-3. Nokia has been looking for the opportunity to test its DVB-H TV handset standard in China. Furthermore, Tsinghua University is developing its DMB-TH standard based on DMB-T.

Currently, the standards in China that have been industrialized are Tsinghua University’s DMB-T, Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s ADTB-T, Academy of Broadcasting Science’s TiMi and DVB-T from Europe.

Though the stardard is delayed to be issued over and over again, the Digital Terrestrial TV has been broadcasted in 43 cities. It has spread from bus, taxi to subway, railway, ferry, building and city emergency management information system. Most of these regions adopt Tsinghua University’s DMB-T and DVB-T from Eurpoe. Shanghai adopts Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s ADTB-T.

The mobile TV’s types is adopting digital broadcasting technologies. The receiver can be fixed on bus, subway, city railway, taxi or some other public places, and it also can be fixed on hand-hold equipments, such as mobile phone, laptop, PMP, and super portable PC etc.

Most of the Areas Adopting DVB-T as Digital Terrestrial TV Standard.

There are three kinds of Digital Terrestrial TV Standard: DVB-T, ATSC and ISDB-T. Most of the countries and region in Europe adopt DVB-T; Only Japan adopts ISDB-T; North America adopts ATSC; China, Mongolia and South America have not defined their standards. There are still 16% of countries and regions intended to adopt DVB-T.

China’s cable TV(CATV) industry has a history of 30 years up to 2006 and through years of development, CATV is now the largest cable TV network throughout the world and becomes one of the most important components in China’s radio TV industry. Currently, China’s digital TV is mainly cable digital TV relying upon the CATV network.

Digital mobile TV realizes the broadcasting and receiving of digital programs through radio digital signal emission  and ground digital receiver, taking buses, taxis, subways, light rails, business cars and personal cars, etc as its carriers. In a sense, mobile TV has become the best information channel of some citizens.

China started to transmit TV programs nationwide with communication satellites in 1985. For the past 21 years, China has made a great progress in satellites broadcasting & TV technology. The adoption of satellite digital compression technology elevates the signal quality of TV programs from CCTV or provincial broadcast TV stations and expands the population coverage of broadcast and TV. Thanks for the satellite television 1226 millon Chinese are covered in 2005, with a coverage ratio of 95.81%, much higher than 68.3% in 1985. Yet due to a certain policy factor, live broadcast of digital TV in China is still being restricted to some extent. Anyway, nothing can hinder its development trend in the long term.

Though compared with developed countries, China is lagged far behind in the field of digital TV, yet it made rapid progress in 2005; altogether 4.13 million Chinese subscribed digital TV, increasing by over twofold compared to the previous year. Among them, 3.97 million were digital cable digital TV subscribers.