Bringing Streaming Video to Wireless Handheld Devices

In fact, video compression techniques like MPEG-4 and others are reducing the wireless bandwidth needed for streaming video. But there still remain other factors, which are just as critical as bandwidth, if not more so. Beyond bandwidth, the other half of the streaming video equation is the architecture and capabilities of the terminal device itself. Even if unlimited wireless bandwidth were suddenly to become available, service providers and terminal device manufacturers would have no assurance they could provide a high-quality streaming video experience, unless the architecture of the terminal device featured a solid foundation for the application and the processing capabilities to pull it off.