[opendtv] Re: Watching TV on Your Cellphone
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 14:17:07 -0400
It occurs to me that maybe the way to do television and video
conferencing on cell phones might be to just have phones that could take
advantage of free/cheap bandwidth on the increasingly available
Internet lan hot spots.
- Tom
Monty Solomon wrote:
> September 1, 2004
>
> Watching TV on Your Cellphone
>
> By WALTER S. MOSSBERG
>
> Not enough television in your life? Well, now you can stay tuned in
> at all times, thanks to your cellphone.
>
> Sprint has begun offering two different TV services on its
> cellphones. One, called MobiTV, offers real-time broadcasts of
> programming from a variety of networks. The second, called Sprint TV,
> serves up specially produced short clips from major networks. Each
> costs about $10 a month, and both are powered onto Sprint cellphones
> by a privately held California-based company called Idetec Inc.
>
> The Sprint phones don't actually contain TV receivers. Instead, the
> programs are "streamed" onto the phones, via the Internet, from
> servers that first convert the TV signals into digital files.
>
> While the idea of watching TV on a wireless phone is new in the U.S.,
> it's old hat in some other countries. When I was in Korea earlier
> this year, I was able to receive perfectly rendered TV broadcasts on
> a little Samsung phone during long rides in a minibus stalled in
> choked traffic in Seoul.
>
> But Korean cellphone networks handle data -- like the TV streams --
> much faster than Sprint's network. While Sprint's network is one of
> the fastest nationally deployed systems in the U.S., it's
> pathetically slow compared with Korean and other foreign wireless
> phone networks. So, my question was: How good could it be?
>
> To find out, my assistant Katie Boehret and I have been testing
> MobiTV and Sprint TV. Our verdict: Neither service will ever be
> confused with even basic cable on a cheap TV set, but MobiTV was
> pretty fair, while Sprint TV had serious problems.
>
> ...
>
> http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/solution-20040901.html
>
>
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