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What to Expect from Consumer Electronics Show - By the end of this year, American consumers will be able to enjoy broadcasting’s mobile DTV service in all the major TV markets. As executive director of the Open Mobile Video Coalition, the industry group dedicated to promoting mobile DTV, Anne Schelle believes in it and this week she will be doing her best to convince the rest of the consumer electronics world at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to believe it, too. What to Expect from Consumer Electronics Show The OMVC will release more encouraging results from its consumer trial on mobile DTV service. And it will open up its ranks to non-broadcasters — device manufacturers, app developers, content providers and others hoping to exploit the new platform. The charter members of the OMVC Mobile DTV Forum: LG Electronics, Samsung, Dell and Harris. “There are huge opportunities to develop for this platform,” said Schelle. “You’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg on what c...