About MobilizedTV

What we cover

MobilizedTV covers television and streaming as engineering as much as entertainment: the standards that carry a broadcast, the protocols that deliver a stream, the hardware people watch on, the software that runs on it, and the practical problems that come out of all four. Coverage is organised into 5 hubs rather than a general news feed:

• Streaming — How streaming actually works: delivery formats, video quality, subscription platforms and the technology behind on-demand and live television.
• TV Technology — Broadcast and display technology explained: ATSC 3.0 and NextGen TV, DVB, tuners, panel technologies, HDR standards and the transmission side of television.
• Devices — Smart TVs, streaming sticks, set-top boxes, consoles and phones as viewing devices — platforms, capabilities, compatibility and support lifespans.
• Apps — Streaming and TV apps examined as software: platform availability, playback behaviour, accessibility features, offline support and interface changes.
• Guides — Practical, tested guides for watching television: fixing buffering and playback errors, casting, network setup, picture settings and device configuration.

The test we apply to a subject is whether explaining the mechanism makes a reader better at deciding something. If it does not, we do not have much to add.

Who writes it

Articles are published by the MobilizedTV Editorial Team rather than under individual bylines. That is a deliberate choice: the publication is small, and a shared byline is more honest than attributing work to invented personalities. A human editor is responsible for every article, including for checking its claims against the sources it lists. How we research, source, correct and disclose is set out in the editorial policy.

This domain had a previous publication

This is the part worth being precise about, because it would be easy to imply something untrue.

Between 2007–2011, MobilizedTV was an independent trade publication covering mobile television, mobile video and broadcast technology. It had its own editor and its own named contributors, drawn from the broadcast and production industries, and it was cited by the technology press, trade publications, reference works and at least one academic paper. It stopped publishing in 2011. The domain subsequently passed through hosting placeholders, domain resale, and a period in which it was used by parties with no connection to television at all.

What we do is narrower and, we think, defensible. A handful of the original addresses are still cited by outside sources, and those links still bring readers here. Rather than break them, we keep those exact addresses working and publish newly written, independently researched pieces on the same subjects, each one saying plainly at the top what the address used to be and that the original is not reproduced. The archive page sets out that arrangement in full, and the editorial policy states the rules those pages are held to.

Why this subject, on this domain

The connection is topical rather than corporate. The original publication’s strongest beat was broadcast and Mobile DTV technology — the question of how a television signal reaches a device that is not plugged into an aerial. That question did not go away. It became ATSC 3.0, streaming delivery and connected viewing devices, which is what this publication covers.

Continuing that subject on the address where it was covered seems to us more respectful of the original than either abandoning the domain or pretending to be it.

Commercial interests

The publisher also operates a subscription service. It has exactly one page — offers — which carries a commercial disclosure, is kept apart from editorial coverage, and is never presented as a review, a ranking or a recommendation. Editorial articles do not promote it, and we do not publish comparisons of services competing with it, because we could not do that credibly.

We take no payment for coverage and currently use no affiliate links. The full position is in the conflicts of interest section of the editorial policy.