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Bringing the idea of watching TV on your cellphone one step closer to these shores, Philips Electronics is working on a TV-on-cellular chipset which it plans to have available to us by sometime next year. Partnering up with Crown Castle Mobile Media, the company has acquired terrestrial rights to 5Mhz of L-band spectrum and plans on showing all this off at CES in January. European phones with a similar chipset are already being made and should be available to coincide with the World Cup, which should make people very happy. Now everyone else, including broadcasters, cellular providers and handset makers need to get their shit together and sort out their business models so we can try to catch up to the rest of the world. And I can watch Lost on my cellphone.
Royal Philips Electronics says watching TV on cell phones isn't just an Asian phenomenon. [news.com]
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yea, like we'll see this in the next year.. or decade.. if only they could somehow get the cable company involved and include this with one's cable bill. I just don't like the idea of having to pay two bills for tv/cable... hmm.. maybe i'll have to dig back into getting my own VOD server going using good ole Darwin Streaming Server (free). anyone have any good info on rtsp streams and cellphones? Will most newer phones be supported or does this require users to purchase shiny new overly priced crap provider-based phones for playback? the US is pretty behind (atleast the large majority) in cellphones, heck my friends are just starting to get a camera phones! haha... while i'm using my new shiny SE W800i walkman phone.. :)
Here in Ontario, Canada there is a cellphone provider, Telus Mobility, which provides TV on phone - they offer 7? different channels and yes.
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