Along with the explosion of tablets, Android (News - Alert) devices and 4G phones, says media blogger Mark Walsh, “one of the trends emerging from the Consumer Electronics Show is a fresh mobile video push in 2011.”

Walsh says that despite the shutdown of Qualcomm's FLO TV service last year, and the sale of the FLO spectrum to AT&T (News - Alert), “broadcasters, carriers and handset makers are rolling out new initiatives banking on a growing mobile video audience.”

This is good news for mobile video. Walsh runs down some of the more promising options:

“Among the most high-profile ventures is Samsung's partnership with Comcast and Time Warner (News - Alert) Cable to deliver content to mobile devices and its Internet-connected TVs. Under the deal, Samsung would offer the two cable giants' video programming to its Smart TVs with an Internet link and its Galaxy Tab tablet. Samsung (News - Alert), with a large footprint in both mobile and TV, is well positioned to help bring the two media together.”

Now this reporter has seen those Galaxy Tabs, and wouldn’t mind giving one a test drive for its mobile video capabilities. Lots of exciting things happening in the tablet market, the iPad certainly won’t be the last word. Samsung, in fact, looks like they know what they’re doing with mobile video and tablets.

Interestingly, Walsh thinks an argument could be made that “Internet-connected TV could get traction faster on mobile devices than on the living room TV, where traditional viewing habits have been difficult for technology companies to break.”

He’s got a point. Up until now, of course, technological quality has been the huge stumbling block. But as he thinks, “users would be able to use the Galaxy Tab to search TV content as well as watch live TV on the tablet throughout the home.”

Let’s hope. Anybody need a test driver?