March 1, 2004
About MobiTV
An interesting article from the San Diego Tribune on MobiTV, the first service offering live TV on wireless phones in the US and a mention of two other services which provide short pre-packaged video clips on topics including news, sports, music and movies; 1KTV and Real Player for mobile.
"mobiTV, launched in November by Idetic, is available for an additional $9.99 a month to Sprint PCS customers who already have the PCS Vision data plan.
What you get, according Mike Langberg who tested the service, "is unlimited viewing of 14 live cable television channels, including ABC News Live, CNBC, the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel and MSNBC.
Regular television runs at 30 frames a second, fast enough for the human eye and the human brain to see fluid action.
MobiTV claims to broadcast at one to two frames a second; in my tests with a Sanyo SCP 8100 flip phone borrowed from Idetic, the picture instead seemed to change every one to two seconds.
The result was more like a fast-paced slide show than video, but the pictures did give me at least a sense of what was happening".
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