tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5633495.post113568260988439936..comments2023-07-02T15:55:30.759+01:00Comments on De-Scribed: Different Approaches to "Mobile" TVScribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08757616056135886893noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5633495.post-1136380786219264292006-01-04T13:19:00.000+00:002006-01-04T13:19:00.000+00:00Also relevant is this BBC article on the rise of m...Also relevant is this BBC article on the <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4580244.stm" REL="nofollow">rise of mp3 and video portable players</A>.<BR/><BR/>MP3 players got sold because people could put their own music on them, and iTunes jumped on the back of that, I wager - there's not much demand for a device you can only download tracks to, and that you can't put your own music on. Similarly, music phones need the same functionality, and buying music to your phone (with the exception of ringtones) is an "add-on".<BR/><BR/>What's relevant here is the mention of the increase in video players. Up until now, there hasn't been *that* much personal storage of video - not in the same way that mp3s took off acter the introduction of Napster. Most people still watch things either from DVD or from the TV. But personal video players that let you play your own videos <I>may</I> change this, creating a demand for video being stored on PCs (i.e. encoding your own DVDs (probably illegally)).<BR/><BR/>Perhaps <I>this</I> is what's needed to kickstart the mobile TV industry - the decentralised, personalised, <I>free</I> (and probably illegal) transfer of content via broadband + USB. After that, downloading videos becomes another "add-on".Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08757616056135886893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5633495.post-1136366437380977462006-01-04T09:20:00.000+00:002006-01-04T09:20:00.000+00:00I find it strange that the first/nigh-on only use ...I find it strange that the first/nigh-on only use being thought up is sporting highlights. (OK, and perhaps music videos too.) Maybe I'm clouded by too many comparisons with the Japanese market, but who's the main mobile phone "early adopter" crowd here? In my mind, you have the technoheads who want to <I>play</I> with the tech (but who can't/aren't), and people that like to be chatty - in fact aren't there figures somewhere suggesting women send more texts than men? Ah, would need to look that up...<BR/><BR/>Anyway, point being that the people they have in mind when coming up with this stuff may not be the people who are most <I>likely</I> to get into the idea.<BR/><BR/>I quite like your idea of mimicing the format, but don't see it having too many uses...<BR/><BR/>Also interesting that the BBC really haven't touched the idea yet - maybe the market structure of the phone network restricts them or something. Still, with things like news and parliament channels, they probably have access to the greatest range of possible ideas available. Streams that rely on audio (e.g. news) more than video (e.g. football with its tiny white dots as a focal point) strike me as being quite attractive. A list of currently available news clips, for instance, might work well, but the fact that I've never seen this promoted for 3G just reinforces my theory that the phone industry has no idea what it's doing...<BR/><BR/>BTW, this post slowly tapped out letter by letter on the Nokia 770 mentioned in the post... More info on how I'm getting along with it soon, I hope.Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08757616056135886893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5633495.post-1136331209224418502006-01-03T23:33:00.000+00:002006-01-03T23:33:00.000+00:00My guess is that the right format for mobile TV wi...My guess is that the right format for mobile TV will be something that apes the way people are using mobiles.<BR/><BR/>So think video clips that arrive to subscribers as though intercepted video-messages sent from one soap-opera character to another.<BR/><BR/>I so hope the TV industry are clueless and this will be a continuing non-event. But the idea that they're even *thinking* of streaming strategies that d.o.s. the telephone network scares me.Composinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com