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BERLIN - Nokia is attempting to redefine terrestrial digital television in Europe by introducing a portable/mobile TV device featuring a GSM phone and designed to offer TV programs as well as datacast, Internet access and e-mail services.
With partners ZDF-a German public broadcaster-and Deutsche Telekom, Nokia demonstrated a prototype of its battery-operated, color-LCD-screen digital TV, code-named MediaScreen, at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) 1999 exhibition here last week.
Nokia's MediaScreen, with an embedded computer running the Linux operating system and a GSM phone used as a return channel, was shown in action as both a portable device within a booth and as a mobile unit installed in a car that could be seen cruising the IFA exhibition halls.
The live demonstrations proved the robustness of digital video broadcast (DVB )-terrestrial reception based on coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (COFDM). Both the portable- and mobile-device demos displayed perfectly clear pictures, as well as interactive access to the Internet and to select Internet sites offered by the broadcaster...