What is interesting about Rohde and Schwarz announcing in time for NAB that it will offer the world’s first conformance test system for MediaFLO, is that MediaFLO, which has come from nowhere against the established mobile TV platforms, and which has undergone a huge amount of suspicion and criticism, some of it justified and some of it from ourselves, has finally begun building its own eco-system.
Virtually simultaneously, Spirent Communications has announced much the same, in time for the same show, a test system for MediaFLO enabled devices and Ethertronics has announced an embedded MediaFLO antenna, instead of those used at present which have to be pulled out telescopically, like an antique radio receiver.