Last week I shed a big sum of money to buy my family, a big LED TV. The phrase which helped me in deciding which TV to buy was “the Bigger, the better”. This mindset came down crashing when I saw an article stating the relevance of Mobile TV. If you have a Mobile TV, do you really need a wall mounted big LED TV in your living rooms. Perhaps, wall mounted big TVs would live to die another day.
Mobile TV is already a reality in some ways. Today, you can watch television clips on your mobile phone. But the Television technology has not grown the way rest of the technology around has grown. In spite of the growth of mobile gadgets for over a decade, it was only in October 2009 that the Advanced Television Systems Committee, a global, non-profit body developing voluntary standards for digital television, decided on a digital mobile TV standard. These standards were for both free and subscription-based television, and for interactive as well as downloaded video files for playback later. This was the fillip the manufacturers needed.
LG Electronics has came up with a device which can be used for Mobile TV viewing. Costing $249, this gadget has a seven-inch screen, two sets of ear phones, a DVD Player and stereo speakers. It is suppose to provide 2.5 hours of battery for live television and 4.5 hours for DVD player.
You can use a converter called the Tivit to receive mobile TV broadcasts on a laptop or a mobile phone, provided your gadget can connect to a Wi-Fi network. Tivit broadcasts the television signal as a Wi-Fi signal and your gadget can pick up this signal from a distance of about 50 meters. Tivit is made by South Korean multimedia products company Valups, and will cost around $100 in the US when available later this year.
Year 2010 would be the year when Mobile TV finally came into being in developed countries. In India, it would take sometime for making the infrastructure in place for it to blossom. It is too important a technology to ignore for long, considering the reach of mobile phones in India & the number of eye balls it can give for greedy Marketers.
Further Reading : http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/tivit-promises-to-bring-mobile-dtv-to-the-iphone-and-other-wifi/
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#1 by Vibhor Goyal on January 30, 2010 - 01:05
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I can’t wait for HTML5 based Hulu on phones.
#2 by Kinshuk Arya on January 30, 2010 - 23:36
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how can we compare it with the recently launched Apple’s i-pad??
#3 by Ankit Avasthi on February 1, 2010 - 01:58
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@ Kinshuk Arya :As far as I have read about iPAD, iPAD fills the gap between a Laptop & a smartphone. Its just another new cool device, which would still run on a system software which also runs on iPhone. If iPhone can broadcast live soccer games, so will iPAD. Both things can not be compared really.
#4 by Vibhor Goyal on February 1, 2010 - 12:59
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Well, I don’t think iPad could come up to its expectations, especially the fact that I cannot liste to pandora, while using iWork on an iPad, kills the deal. But I am sure, iphone OS 4.0 will bring it on.
Meanwhile do check out the following:
#5 by Amy on April 23, 2010 - 10:05
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@ Kinshuk Arya :As far as I have read about iPAD, iPAD fills the gap between a Laptop & a smartphone. Its just another new cool device, which would still run on a system software which also runs on iPhone. If iPhone can broadcast live soccer games, so will iPAD. Both things can not be compared really.