The following entertainment article was written for Spreety TV Online by professional journalist Carolyn Giardina. Study: Consumers Are Ready For Mobile TV By Carolyn Giardina The notion of watching live television via a mobile device was appealing to half of the 1,000 adult surveyed in a recent national study of mobile device owners by Magid Media Labs, commissioned by the Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC).
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Ready for Mobile TV?
So CES 2010 has wrapped. It brought with it a number of gadgets, some we’ll see in the market, some we won’t, some useful, some weird, and some that are just downright cool. Here are some of my favorite things to come out of CES 2010: Inbrics M1 Inbrics M1 : The Inbrics M1 is a sexy little Android slider phone (at least, I think it’s a phone; the representative kept calling it an MID ). Anyway, it’s hot, and with a 800 MHz processor, its performance should be really snappy, just below that of the HTC HD2 and Nexus One . Nexus One : Ok, so this wasn’t really a surprise, as this thing had been leaked months ago, and then confirmed days before the actual event. Even still, it’s official, it’s called the Nexus One, and it’s available now . And if you have T-Mobile service, you want one. Truthfully, I want one, but I’d rather wait and see what else one of the better networks has to offer in the coming months. That, and I really, really love my hardware keyboard. HTC HD2 gets a US carrier : For T-Mobile, when it rains, it pours. T-Mobile announced that it was also the exclusive carrier of the HTC HD2 in the US, meaning that, at least for now, T-Mobile is the exclusive carrier of the two most powerful phones available right now in the states, in both Winmo and Android flavors. The caveat to this is the HD2 won’t be on sale until Spring 2010. Hopefully Sprint and/or some of other big name carriers can get a hold of something that can counter these two bad boys (a Touch Pro3 with a Snapdragon processor and capacitive screen definitely could be in the works- but as of now, that’s just a dream).
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Highlights from CES 2010
Vizio’s unveiling a new line of products at CES, starting with a trio of Razor LED sets that are designed to watch mobile TV. They come in 9-inch VMB090, 10-inch VMB100, 7-inch VMB070 sizes. The whole trio measure in at less than 1-inch thick, though you’ll only really enjoy the integrated antenna if you live in a spot where the broadcasts are available
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Vizio digs into Mobile TV
With all the advancements that Digital TV brought us we also lost some things. Digital TV brought us high-definition TV, and if you can get a signal, perfect reception. But one of the things that the switch to digital TV removed is the ability to watch TV while you’re on the move. With analog broadcasts, which are now defunct, people could watch a baseball game while they were in the stadium, knowing that the signal, however fuzzy, would follow them to the hot dog stand
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TV on the Move
NEWS Preview of CES 2010 TV of the future : Sensio previews the latest in 3D technology ahead of the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show . 3D TV ’s, shows are coming soon : Popular TV channels will soon be rolling out programs for viewers in 3D. CNN ’s Errol Barnett explains.
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Preview of CES 2010
NEWS What’s hot at CES, and why it matters By Ben Parr, CNN January 6, 2010 4:23 p.m. EST The wild success of “ Avatar ” has sparked a wave of demand for 3D content in the home.
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NEWS Tablets, TV phones among first glimpses from CES By Brandon Griggs and John D. Sutter , CNN January 6, 2010 6:05 a.m.
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Tablets, TV phones among first glimpses from CES
Open Mobile Video Coalition Mobile TV Globally, mobile TV buyers are a small population with just 115 million subscribers, according to Screen Digest . Compare that to 4.1 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide , and mobile TV is clearly a tough market . I’m not sure that the new devices (pictured) that will offer free over-the-air television delivery of broadcast channels to be shown off in a few days at CES, or Qualcomm’s (s qcom) attempts to bring its MediaFLO television service to cars will make a dent in the apathy around mobile television.
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Can the Cloud Help Drive Mobile TV Adoption?
Both Samsung and LG are testing the waters for a mobile phone with a projector but there’s a third underdog competitor – Logic Wireless and their Logic Bolt, which recently got updated with slightly improved specs. The Logic Wireless Logic Bolt v1.5 offers quad-band GSM support with not one but two SIM cards. It has a 2.6″ QVGA screen, which might or might not be a touchscreen – the Logic Wireless website is very stingy and ambiguous when it comes to information
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Logic Wireless Logic Bolt packs a projector, two SIMs and a TV
When I saw this commercial on tv inside the bus, I get the warm fuzzy feeling in my stomach. How awesome is it to be appreciated! The commercial shows every one handing out sunflower to a school canteen auntie, or the HR personnel from office. Especially when it has got this great song to boot. I borrowed the lyrics from this blog .
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The following entertainment article was written for Spreety TV Online by professional journalist Carolyn Giardina. Mobile DTV On The Way By Carolyn Giardina In a move that underscores the shift toward viewing television content on non-traditional devices, the Advanced Television Systems Committee has approved a mobile digital television standard
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Mobile DTV On The Way
Here it Comes! On 16th Nov 2009 Nokia announced the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition, an entertainment hub that combines mobile broadcast TV (DVB-H), social networking, music and gaming in one compact 3G device. With mobile broadcast TV consumption on the rise – by 2012 there will be over 300 million people worldwide watching TV on their mobile phones – this handset offers easy access to anyone wanting to enjoy an exceptional live, on-the-move TV experience
Here’s the Nokia 5330 – Mobile TV Edition Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition More than 30 operators around the world are rolling out Mobile TV services now, with Austria, Finland, Ghana, Kenya, India, Italy, Namibia, Nigeria, Netherlands, Philippines and Switzerland all boasting services.
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Nokia 5330 – Mobile TV launches!
This afternoon, ‘London Lite’ report that you can now “Watch live Sky telly on iPhones”! Sky have today launched the first official commercial TV service for Apple iPhones. For a subscription of only £6 a month you’ll be able to get Sky News, Sky Sports and ESPN channels, live on your iPhone. How kool is that! The screen size of an iPhone makes watching TV a pleasurable experience
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Some dark shadows on the future of dedicated Mobile Broadcast TV networks have been cast last week (thanks to Dick Pache for sending in the info). On Thursday, German press reported that the consortium that won a DVB-H license in Germany, and started transmitting on June 1st this year, is about to shut down its DVB-H service . The apparent reason is that the mobile operators in Germany, who failed to win the license, would not provide DVB-H handsets to support this service, and prefer instead to offer to their subscribers handsets that are capable of receiving free-to-air terrestrial Digital TV broadcasts using the existing DVB-T network
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Bad Week for Mobile Broadcast TV
CSA, the French media regulator, has awarded mobile TV licenses to 13 TV channels. The French Mobile Broadcast TV service, using DVB-H technology, is expected to start by the end of this year. It is interesting to note that only two of the channels, EuroSport and CanalPlus will charge a subscription fee for viewing, while all the other channels will be included in the basic, “free” mobile TV package (part of the mobile subscription fee)
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13 French Mobile TV Licenses Awarded
According to a new market research published this week by Analysys Mason, mobile operators should look at the alternatives to delivering TV content to mobile devices, using WiFi and sideloading (transfer of content to a mobile device through a PC).
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Mobile TV Possible Without 3G or Mobile Broadcast Networks
AT&T announced that it will start offering a Mobile Broadcast TV service in the USA based on Qualcomm’s MediaFLO technology in May this year. The service will include 10 channels, two of them exclusive to AT&T, and will be supported by two handsets: The Samsung Access and the LG Vu.
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AT&T To Launch Mobile Broadcast TV in May
Telecoms Korea reported yesterday that as of February 29th 2008, the number of satellite DMB subscribers reached 1.31 million, and the number of terrestrial DMB users reached 9.69 million, giving a total of 11 million mobile broadcast TV users in Korea (I am using the term “users” for T-DMB since it is a free-to-air service, and not a subscription service). Monthly sales of T-DMB devices are in the range of 400-500K a month, meaning that by the end of March the number of T-DMB users alone will pass the 10 million mark. S-DMB growth is not reported in the article, but it seems that S-DMB has stalled in Korea since similar numbers were reported at the end of 2007
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Mobile Broadcast TV Users in Korea Reach 11 Million
CIO Magazine quotes John Strand from Strand Consulting providing a grim outlook for mobile broadcast TV services. Some of the highlights include: Only Nokia and other vendors can make money from mobile TV today, because they can sell network equipment and phones.
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Strand Consulting: No Business Model for Mobile Broadcast TV