Comments on: FAQ: The lowdown on mobile TV

TV on mobile phones is expected to be a hot new service that will generate lots of revenue for carriers.

[bar86]

It 's a total flop in Israel.

A service of this type exists in Israel and
gets no attention whatsoever. Who wants to watch the TV on such a tiny screen ? A year after the introduction of 3G services and heavy campaigns all over the media, only 1 percent of cellular subscribers bought those sets even though they are not expensive at all ! Hype, Hype, Hype..

[jacomo]

Small Screens are a Non Starter

You can add solid Narrowband (EV-DO and CIngular) bandwidth and special features and have the greates small video content around but until you increase the screen size you are going to have limited success using Cell Phones to watch and interact with these video programs. Size does counts folks.
Now if you could get the carriers to quit fearing the PDA and allow the vendors to make these devices with large screens/WiFi/Bluetooth and cellphone access in sufficient volume you would have a great package. They also need to quit fearing the power of the emerging WiFi Mesh Networks (and its VoWLAN capabilities) being deployed in the USA and incorporate it into their plans, we (local Service providers) might be able to deliver a successful product.

Jacomo

[heystoopid]

Oh no more mobile grunge!

Oh well, since a vast majority of programs, that make it to TV are mediocre grunge, and a majority of TV news has now degenerated to the point of becoming nothing better than propaganda since the US Presidential election 2000(alas on count back jnr didn't have the legal majority, but won on the blitzkrieg of the propaganda storm of his creation, forcing the real winners to capitulate and again in '03 Iraq WMD Media embeddded Military Campaign is but one of the many classic examples of that genre, and many more exist, where the big four Media Combines routinely & deliberately filters and sanitizes the news at the behest of anonymous unelected government officials, prior to the release to the masses) Oh, well, little wonder why it is unpopular, for who indeed wants to view the mobile version of this grunge on a 2" screen, when you can view it in all it's glory on your 100" plus video display unit!

[dovad]

Orb.com missing...

Interesting article however I believe you missed inclusion of the streaming of live and recorded TV via the free orb.com service.

[seamonkey420]

anyone doing it themselves?

just curious..

is anyone else out there attempting to stream their own TV/Video to their cellphone??

i'm still working on the process but am getting very close!
i'm using Darwin Streaming Server, Quicktime, and a Sony W800i cellphone...

too bad T-Mobile's networks are so slow and limited in bandwidth....