"With the focus of the Digital Video Broadcasting project's annual conference here this week on the convergence of broadcasting with mobile communications, the theme repeated in session after session might well have boiled down to: “TV in your pocket, money from your pocket.” The first versions of “portable TV,” enabled by the new DVB-H mobile video standard, are from Nokia of Finland and Japan's NEC. The devices are already in the prototype stage. They are the vanguard of efforts to add features to mobile phones, and to create a new category of mobile video receivers that will amuse consumers, improve revenues for companies in a number of industries and, possibly, atomize society even more than today's oft-lamented “lonely crowd.” "
It's unlikely we'll ever see this come to the Smartphone platform, because it's a competing solution to the 9 Series Windows Media codecs, but it's interesting to see what the rest of the industry is looking at doing. TV on my Smartphone? I'm not sure - TV is such a passive medium, I'm not sure how much I'd want to watch a TV show while sitting in a waiting room. There's also the issue of needing headphones. What I would be interested in, though, would be a way for me to watch shows on my PVR. Something like that is already possible with
Snapstream's Beyond TV and a Pocket PC, so we're getting there. What do you think about watching TV on your Smartphone? Is it something you could see yourself doing?
EETimes: "DVB-H inspires visions of 'TV in your pocket' "
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