According to a recent report by Telephia, the “prime time” for mobile TV viewing is in the late afternoon. Cellular News has a breakdown by time slots and demographics. The age demographic may surprise you: 50% of mobile TV users are 25-36, not younger like many people believe. However, as they grow older, I’m guessing […]

Eyespot has an application which lets mobile phone users subscribe to video feeds and edit and share clips. Right. On a mobile phone. Can you say eyestrain? What we really need, to make apps like Eyespot worthwhile, is seven-inch screens with 3D images. Can anyone tell me where the Paris Hilton video feed is?

While TV and Apple Mac junkies are salivating over the recently announced Apple iTV IPTV device, Snappy Multimedia’s HAVA seems to hvae gone quietly unnoticed. At least, this is the first I’ve heard of them. Of course, they are kind of the opposite of iTV. Instead of your downloaded video content being streamed wirelessly from […]

Okay, maybe I’m not as much of a TV junkie as a I thought. I certainly don’t have a TiVo, and certainly not the big TiVo Series3 unit (US$800, or $1,000 with transferred lifetime subscription) that’s pictured over at Engadget. Apparently, though, there are some problems with using TiVos with plasma TVs. It has something […]

Om Malik speculates on Rupert Murdoch’s idea about using WiMax for broadcasting video content. Murdoch doesn’t think it’ll work, but there are already companies doing it. Sort of. TV-over-WiMax? Well why not? If Apple’s new wireless-streaming iTV device isn’t already proof of the possibilties, then I don’t know what is. WiMax wireless networks haven’t been […]

Actually, CNBC TV just showed some clips of the device. It has a three-inch screen, 30 Gb of space and integrated wireless capability. In fact, they also showed a clip demonstrating two Zunes communicating, with one transmitting songs to the other. Toshiba will also manufacture the device under the name Pyxis.
There was little use of […]

CNBC TV had clips tonight of the new iTV device from Apple. With it, you can stream video content from the Internet to your TV. What I saw showed RCA jacks, but earlier news said that you can stream IPTV content wirelessly. Apple also started selling movies as of today, at US$9.99 per copy.
The problem […]

Vietnam will be getting DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast - Handheld) mobile TV services thanks to a joint deal [Cellular News] between Nokia and Vietnam Multimedia Corporation (VTC). Nokia’s also working with Motorola to ensure that their DVB-H devices and services are interoperable. They will be working on solutions based on the open DVB-IPDC (presumably DVB […]

With a big surge in interest for mobile TV, improving picture quality is on the minds of some companies such as Snell & Wilcox. The image processing company has come up with a way to improve picture quality for mobile video devices (MVD) running on a wireless network. Another company called Helios Mobile is using […]

Tomorrow (Sep 12), Apple has a big press conference in San Francisco and everyone’s speculating as to what’s going to be announced. Will it be the purported iPod phone (iPhone)? Or has Apple connected TVs and PCs together? Or will it be related to mobile TV?
Given that Apple is selling movies online, having an easy […]

Before the Internet became public, someone declared that in the future, there’d be a million channels of TV. We’re not there yet, but reality seems to be leaning towards the prophecy. With video cameras generally affordable and websites like YouTube and others which let you upload your videos, the viewer has become the producer [Reuters].
YouTube […]

IPTV stands for Internet Protocol TV. Basically, it’s television broadcast over the Internet, to your computer or a Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) video gadget. Mobile TV, on the other hand, could be IPTV but doesn’t have to be. Mobile TV refers to video content broadcast directly to your smartphone or PDA (Personal Digital Asisstant). You know […]

Several companies in England are offering mobile TV. One is Virgin Mobile, the other ITV. ITV has just launched an ad-free mobile TV service for subscribers of Hutchison’s 3 network. [sources: FierceMobile; Guardian via FierceMobile]
BT Movio will be offering a wholesale service to mobile operators. In fact, Virgin Mobile is its first customer. The service […]