Kris Kumar
01-28-2005, 08:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4206947.stm' target='_blank'>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4206947.stm</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Clearly, you wouldn't want to watch the epic Lord of the Rings or Star Wars on your mobile phone. Nor are the handhelds ideal for the three-and-a-half hours of Seven Samurai or the Super Bowl. Big-screen epics are not best viewed by bunches of friends clutching cans of beer and a mobile. So a new form of video is being devised. Just as radio and then television spawned new genres of drama so will video phones. ... Fox Broadcasting is producing one minute length "mobisodes" of its thriller "24" in Europe and may do the same next month in the US."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Kris-Jan2005-FoxMobisode.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/><br /><br />I am not sure if I would want to watch movies or TV shows on the small screen. But I am excited about the future. I am hoping that in the <i>not-so-distant-future,</i> I will receive an SMS alert whenever there is a breaking news story. And it will contain the link for the mobile version of the news story. And thanks to the 3G networks I will be able to watch them instantly. 8)