SmartVideo and DMVN Offer Free Music Videos for Mobile Devices

[Mike Temporale]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=111316&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=807124' target='_blank'>http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=111316&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=807124</a><br /><br /></div><i>"SmartVideo Technologies, Inc., announced mobile viewers can now watch the latest music videos on all Internet enabled devices, such as cellphones, PDAs, and laptops connected via cellular, Wi-Fi, and DSL networks. SmartVideo in partnership with the Digital Music Video Network (DMVN), today launched its groundbreaking, advertising-supported channels featuring videos by the music industry's top artists. A unique feature of this service is SmartVideo's use of an advanced Digital Rights Management (DRM) system that protects the copyright and security of the music. Digital Music Video Network, the first 24 hour-a-day music channel for mobile devices, is now available anywhere in North America. Today's launch by SmartVideo and the Digital Music Network features top 40 hits with plans to introduce additional channels dedicated to urban, dance, rock, country and other music genres in the near future."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Temporale-20060128-SmartVideo.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />This looks pretty interesting. I'm not much of a music video guy, so this type of thing doesn't really interest me. However, I know that there are a lot of people that enjoy their music videos. So for all of you, and anyone else that's just plain curious, check it out and please let us know your thoughts. :D For more information, and to sign up, check out the SmartVideo <a href="http://www.smartvideo.com">website.</a>

[MitzEclipse]

Does anyone know if this will work with the T-Mobile USA T-Zones $5.99 GPRS Plan? Has anyone tried this yet?

[Kris Kumar]

I tried the free subscription and the free music videos; found the quality to be poor. The video resolution is not great for a 320x240 pixel screen, it may work well for the lower res Smartphones. The audio quality was not great either.

I was benchmarking the audio quality against the ones provided by Sirius. (http://smartphonethoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10153) Sirius offers very good audio quality.

[Rocco Augusto]

i've found orb media far better for streaming video and music content, even live tv, to my phone.

[Kris Kumar]

i've found orb media far better for streaming video and music content, even live tv, to my phone.

Orb (http://www.orb.com/get_orb/) sounds pretty cool, I used to use Windows Media Encoder for the same. But looks like Orb can do a lot more and in a easier manner.

The only catch with Orb is that you have to host a server with content for streaming. I would prefer listening to live TV or radio not hosted by me. Any other sites that do that?

[Rocco Augusto]

i've found orb media far better for streaming video and music content, even live tv, to my phone.

Orb (http://www.orb.com/get_orb/) sounds pretty cool, I used to use Windows Media Encoder for the same. But looks like Orb can do a lot more and in a easier manner.

The only catch with Orb is that you have to host a server with content for streaming. I would prefer listening to live TV or radio not hosted by me. Any other sites that do that?

its really not that bad, just install orb and any computer you want to stream music from and your good to go. i have a nice hauppauge pvr150MCE tv tuner as well so when i get bored i just tune in to some live tv and im good to go. the quality is suprisingly good on my 2125 with EDGE. it use to be horrible on my 5600 using just GPRS and watching TV. I can actually read text that gets displayed on the screen during commercials now :lol:

[Kris Kumar]

I will give the audio streaming a try. I would like to do video streaming but the room where the computer is sitting doesn't have cable hookup. :-(

But looks like Orb does the same thing as SlingBox and Beyond TV.

Initially I had thought that Orb allows direct streaming, but I believe from the Smartphone I have to connect to http://my.orb.com. I don't think I like that.

This is the last Orb related post I will be writing in this thread. Sorry. :oops:

[craigrens]

A couple of months back, I tried the service that was the focus of this thread but found the selection of channels and "clips" quite dull and boring. Perhaps in the future there will be a much greater selection as technology expands into more devices.

Sorry to do another "Orb" post in this thread, but do other smartphone users know about this? Has this been another topic in the past? This thread turned me onto the service and I'm just loving the audio streaming as you can add custom stations to the service which is pretty cool.

Regards,

Craig