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According to a Reuters story, only 5% of Europeans said they were interested in getting mobile TV in the next 12 months. This is according to a Gartner report on mobile video.

Asians were more interested: 20% of Asians said they would watch mobile TV.  The Reuters story said that 1) a lack of business models, 2) various mobile TV technologies and 3) a shortage of airwaves has slowed the takeup of mobile TV.

In mobile TV, DVB-H broadcasts are gaining popularity in Asia, but another technology, MediaFlo by Qualcomm, is also gathering attention.

MocoNews asks: Are mobile users even interested in mobile TV? But I think if the technology is there, and the price is right, people will be interested. Smartphone users can already get a glimpse of the mobile TV future by using the Slingbox and their phones (like Treos) to watch TV from their homes.

If people are building their own mobile TV solutions today, I’d say the interest is there.

[Via MocoNews]

[tags] mobile, mobile TV, smartphones, research [/tags]