[opendtv] Re: The wilderness is becoming plain

I am on my third generation of cell phone with a built in web browser.  I 
have yet to actually surf the web with it, but I'm sure enough people do to 
make it a profit center for Verizon, or else they would have quit offering 
the service by now.

Seeing as my phone does not have MediaFlo receive capability, and I don't 
think that many phones do yet, nor for that matter has Qualcomm even fired 
up MediaFlo in my market (they better not, my television station is using 
channel 55 for our DTV!), I can believe that less than 1% of cell phone 
users have watched television on their cell phones.

There is probably a 1% penetration of battery portable "watchman" type NTSC 
receivers, yet there is a large enough market to continue to sell these 
miniscule receivers to the public year after year.  I have always stated 
that if our digital signal, without modification, could be received portably 
and without subscription, then there would be a larger market for the 
service.

I note with great interest that there are offered for sale DVB-T portable 
receivers with small 7" screens, and are about the same size as the portable 
DVD players I bought for my kids last Christmas. 
<http://www.mustek.de/eng_/html/produkte/dvdmp70d.htm>

As a subscription service, cell phone television may have the same small 
niche that cell phone web browsing has.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> For years, on this list and elsewhere, I have ranted about the 
> "non-starter" nature of mobile video (as opposed to mobile data and mobile 
> audio) for many, many reasons.  People have argued -- fecklessly, 
> mostly -- and they have ranted back.


 
 
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