December 15, 2005

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LASeR is a recent open standardization effort targeting “rich media” mobile multimedia platforms. As such, it could become a component of the broadcasting DAB and DVB-H consumer devices. 
Here is an excerpt from the technical white paper:
The inherent content and binary encoding structure makes it inappropriate for the mobile. Instead of compromising on the technology performances, MPEG reached the conclusion that an optimum between feature richness/compression efficiency and device constraints needed to be found and decided to create a new standard for Rich Media for constrained devices.