What kind of Mobile TV?
By Ben Robinson on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 at 12:59 PM PST In Convergence, Devices, Mobile TV
TV on your PSP!
Interesting one, this one – the “Daily Mail” (which is a popular newspaper in the UK) has a story online regarding Mobile TV – the main thrust of the article doesn’t concern DVB-H, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) devices, or 3’s successes in Italy, but rather the upcoming inclusion of Freeview tuners in to Mobile devices.
It’s interesting to me because my practical and industry experience tells me that DVB-T (Freeview) works none too well on Mobile devices – in fact, Freeview reception in-home requires a meaty aerial, and a decent decoder.
However, the central premise is reasonable – and the article mentions the inclusion of these Freeview digital tuners in to “Takara DVD Players” and “Sony PlayStation Consoles“.
That in itself brings me to another interesting topic – I’m not sure live broadcast TV reception is suited to a console like the Sony PSP. I was trawling the Interweb the other day and came back across the Go! View offering from Sony and Sky, in the UK. This is a VoD service, where you can download shows to watch from those broadcasters that Sky has a deal with (note: that is LOTS!), and then view at your pleasure.
I’m thinking this has got to be worth a try – but have any IntoMobile readers tried this? If so, care to share your experiences? Then do so via our wonderful comments system!
You can read the Daily Mail Online article here.
You can visit the Sony/Sky Go! View site here.
We, the consumers, want FREE Mobile TV!!
FREE, FREE, FREE.
We don’t care what technology is used to get FREE Mobile TV to our Mobile TvPhone!!!
Only geeks and tech heads are concerned about the technology.
Give us FREE Mobile TV and in turn, we will watch commercials/advertising so we can watch our FREE mobisodes.
Where can I buy a Free TvPhone? — someone sell me one now! and then upsell me later!!
Hook me first with FREE!!
In economic downtimes, consumers want FREE Mobile TV!!
Let advertisers subsidize Mobile Tv service!
Yeah, I’d be interested in this too. I recall that there was a WinMob phone with DVB-T receivers built in ( http://www.intomobile.com/2008/01/11/e-ten-unveils-e-ten-glofish-v900-with-dvb-h-dvb-t-t-dmb-dab.html ) but unfortunately I’ve never seen it in live use.
If DVB-T worked it would be lovely for consumers, but I’m sceptical about reception and battery life as you are. Those were amongst the main reasons for developing a mobile-optimised standard (DVB-H) in the first place.