Archive for 'Mobile TV' Category
Mobile TV Guide for AT&T, Verizon Wireless
17 May 2008
AT&T’s and Verizon Wireless’ mobile TV service both use Qualcomm’s MediaFLO’s network to deliver content to some models of their mobile phones.
There are two differences in the two services, the channels that they offer and the price they charge.
AT&T Verizon Wireless
Mobile TV V Cast
$15 per month $13 per month
CBS Mobile yes […]
AT&T Fails to Impress with Me-too Mobile TV Launch
17 May 2008AT&T last week entered the US mobile TV battle, but with a tame offering delivered over the Qualcomm-owned MediaFLO network, barely better than Verizon’s VCast TV, which has reportedly bombed so far in the US, (although no access figures for VCast have yet been released or even leaked).
AT&T will take the same eight made-for-mobile channels […]
MobiTV to Offer Disney Channel
7 April 2008MobiTV will offer Disney Channel to its MobiTV service subscribers. MobiTV said the same content and programming as seen on cable and satellite television is now available to MobiTV service subscribers on their Web enabled wireless handsets via its carrier partners.
Modu to Offer Mobile Phone ‘Jackets’ with UMG Music
28 March 2008Israel-based mobile phone maker modu and Universal Music Group have entered into an agreement to develop a range of mobile devices (modu jackets, they are called) that will feature some of UMG’s best-known artists.
Modu, which launched in February, offers a slim mobile phone that can be enclosed in a variety of “modu jackets” and “modu […]
Mobile Entertainment to Pull in $47.5 Billion by 2010
14 March 2008The combination of greater 3G adoption and a marked increase in made-for-mobile content will drive mobile entertainment revenues to $47.5 billion by 2010, says a new report from Juniper Research.
The report also cautions that entertainment service adoption will slow down unless improvements are made in areas such as user interface, network coverage and excessive cost […]
Eisner’s Vuguru Releases New Series on V CAST
14 March 2008Verizon Wireless and Michael Eisner’s independent new media studio Vuguru said the other day that “The All-For-Nots” series will air on Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Video service this week. This is part of an ongoing triple-play strategy by Michael Eisner.
“The All-For-Nots,” Vuguru’s second original series, will debut on V CAST in the Music and Showcase […]
BBC Brings iPlayer to iPhone, iPod Touch
14 March 2008The BBC has launched a version of its iPlayer video-on-demand service for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.
The announcement marks the first time the service has been available on portable devices.
The BBC said that the iPhone and iPod touch are able to stream shows from the iPlayer Web site over Wi-Fi networks. The iPhone cannot […]
Can Mobile TV Save Local TV Stations?
7 March 2008Sometimes what technology taketh, it also returneth.
A forward looking Wall Street analyst thinks locally owned TV stations “will come to be viewed as one of the worst businesses during the next 5-10 years” and the realization of that will be sudden much as it has been with the yellow pages companies.
One possible technology savior for […]
FixMyMovie.com Enhances Crappy Cell Phone Videos
29 February 2008Digital video software developer MotionDSP this week unveiled a series of major enhancements to its free consumer service www.fixmymovie.com.
Users can now share videos from mobile phones via MMS of e-mail, making it a one-step process. The service also offers free iPhone conversion.
Videos sent to FixMyMovie are automatically enhanced up to four times their resolution, with […]
MobiTV Customers: Highly Mobile, Young Technophiles
29 February 2008Mobile entertainment company MobiTV this week unveiled its mobile TV viewing habits data:
- 9% of MobiTV’s users watch it in their office or home.
- 43% of parent users utilize the MobiTV service to entertain kids in the car.
- 67% of users have shown the MobiTV service at a party or other social gathering.
- 85% of […]