Jerrek
16-11-2003, 08:38 AM
Cool beans. Look at this:
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/35616
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">A choppy version of the Discovery Channel on your mobile phone? Sprint says yes. At the International Telecommunication Union conference recently, there was no shortage of opinions on how to make wireless handhelds more appealing to consumers. Many attendees put their weight behind incorporating mobile broadcast satellites into their networks, delivering TV and music programs to handsets (see EETimes report).
Sprint has apparently followed through on such promises, and began offering a MobiTV service this week. For $9.99 per month plus connection charges, users can view somewhat choppy (one or two frames per second) television programming from the major networks, as well as from MSNBC, Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel (Associated Press).
While the "cool factor" is high, it's hard to see how these services will take off until third generation networks are deployed. As a stop-gap measure, some manufacturers are planning on including traditional television tuners in their latest handsets.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
I don't need to watch TV that badly, but it sure sounds neat. It would be even better if you can then transfer to a laptop, which would make more sense. Imagine watching TV anywhere there is cell coverage using just a cellphone instead of an 18" dish.
It will get a huge boost once CDMA EVxDO starts operating, with a top speed of 2.4 Mbps. Today's top speed on your cellphone is 144 Kbps with CDMA 1X which won't really sustain a video and audio feed very well.
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/35616
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">A choppy version of the Discovery Channel on your mobile phone? Sprint says yes. At the International Telecommunication Union conference recently, there was no shortage of opinions on how to make wireless handhelds more appealing to consumers. Many attendees put their weight behind incorporating mobile broadcast satellites into their networks, delivering TV and music programs to handsets (see EETimes report).
Sprint has apparently followed through on such promises, and began offering a MobiTV service this week. For $9.99 per month plus connection charges, users can view somewhat choppy (one or two frames per second) television programming from the major networks, as well as from MSNBC, Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel (Associated Press).
While the "cool factor" is high, it's hard to see how these services will take off until third generation networks are deployed. As a stop-gap measure, some manufacturers are planning on including traditional television tuners in their latest handsets.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
I don't need to watch TV that badly, but it sure sounds neat. It would be even better if you can then transfer to a laptop, which would make more sense. Imagine watching TV anywhere there is cell coverage using just a cellphone instead of an 18" dish.
It will get a huge boost once CDMA EVxDO starts operating, with a top speed of 2.4 Mbps. Today's top speed on your cellphone is 144 Kbps with CDMA 1X which won't really sustain a video and audio feed very well.