Mobile TV

Local Broadcasters Want Mobile Standard: Free TV on Phones and Handhelds (With Ads, That Is)

The good news: A coalition of 800 local TV stations are lobbying to get a mobile TV standard approved by the ATSC. Rather than pay Verizon or AT&T a boatload of money to get MediaFLO content, you will just buy a product with a receiver chip and tune in whatever’s on. The bad news: Broadcasters…

Video: AT&T’s Mobile TV Service In Action

The new LG VU is the first handset to support AT&T’s new Mobile TV offering and we got a quick video of the service in action at CTIA. The best part is that Mobile TV on the VU is all run from the touchscreen; from the channel up/down to the on-screen guide. The video quality…

Hands-on With AT&T’s LG VU Multimedia Phone (AT&T Mobile TV is No Joke)

Click to viewThe AT&T LG Vu is the latest multimedia touchscreen phone on the floor at CTIA, offering haptic touchscreen feedback, Mobile TV and a pretty intuitive user interface. While the presentation of the hardware and software is beautiful, and the AT&T’s MediaFlo-powered Mobile TV service is pretty slick, the lack of power in the…

Behold the “Access,” Samsung’s First Mobile TV Phone With AT&T

Samsung and AT&T have officially announced the arrival of the “Access”—Samsung’s first device to support AT&T Mobile TV. The phone features a 2.3-inch landscape display, dual-band 3G and quad-band GSM, one-touch access to AT&T Mobile TV, Video Share, AT&T Mobile Music, Bluetooth, a microSD slot and a 1.3 megapixel camera with video. Pricing has not…

Motorola DH02: Moto’s Third Mobile TV In As Many Months

OK, not to punch the weakling when he’s down on all fours, but this is quite a tale of WTF: First, at CES, Moto unveils a plan for the DH01 Mobile TV with MicroSD card reader and DVB-H for terrestrial reception (where available). Then, it upgrades to the DH01n, adding GPS and a Tele Atlas…

Motorola Updates Its Mobile TV With Navigator

Motorola’s DH01 mobile TV, above, seen at CES last month, has been updated already. The beleaguered electronics company added a GPS navigation system to the DVR (and an “n” to the model number) and took its DH01n to Barcelona’s MWC to show off. It still uses DVB-H format, though, which ain’t exactly popular over here.…

Stream Mobile TV To your iPhone, iPod Touch via Wi-Fi

Packet Video‘s latest Mobile Broadcast Receiver, which looks like a small white box, is able to stream mobile TV to devices with no mobile TV reception capability, such as the iPhone and iPod Touch. It works by receiving DVB-H, MediaFLO or WiMax (depending on the standard for your particular market—Verizon uses MediaFLO) and transcoding it…

LG MPH TV-Everywhere Coming to North America in 2009

LG says its MPH in-band mobile digital television system will be relatively easy for broadcasters to implement into their existing transmitters, and claims that 800 of the US broadcasters are on board for 2009. At today’s press event, company officials said US consumers will be interested in receiving the mobile DTV for weather, news and…

AT&T’s broadcast mobile TV service with Qualcomm’s MediaFlo has had its launch date nudged back from year’s end to early 2008. The reason given is fine tuning, though what kind of “tuning” was left unspecified. Verizon’s, on the other hand, has had its MediaFlo-based offerings up and running since March. [Reuters via Phone Scoop]

GPS Makers Garmin, TomTom, Mitac Pondering Mobile TV To Devices

The three GPS manufacturers, Garmin, TomTom and Mitac, are considering adding Mobile TV functionality to their portable GPS devices, reports DigiTimes. Whether all three, or even one, will eventually allow you to watch TV while driving is still up in the air, but their reasoning is that your time spent navigating is small in proportion…

Stolen Snaps of Samsung G800 Reveal 5 Megapixel camera with 3x Zoom

Following its appearance at a Samsung dealer event in the Netherlands, the ultra-slim G800 slider is getting a bit of attention &mdash mainly because of its 5 megapixel camera with 3 x zoom and Xenon flash. And then there’s the small matter of the HSDPA and the micro SDHC card slot, making me think that…

SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian S60 Looking for Guinea Pigs

Sling Media’s now taking applications for beta testers for SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian S60 phones—Nokia models N75, N95, and E65, specifically. The beta’s US only and will run for four weeks, and you’ll be expected to keep your lips sealed about confidential information (that’ll happen). Oh, and obviously, “Unlimited data plan is a MUST.” If…

Looks like mobile TV provider Modeo’s service won’t be getting any better: it’s dead. [BusinessWeek] https://gizmodo.com/modeo-mobile-tv-service-hands-on-one-day-in-240944

Samsung Brings PiP to Mobile Phones

Samsung is bringing a new phone equipped with Mobile TV to South Korea, the SCH-B710. While Mobile TV is just taking its first baby steps here in the States, in South Korea it’s been going strong for some time now, so they’re already on to a second generation of phones capable of streaming DMB signals.…

Samsung and Nokia to Collaborate on Mobile TV and DRM Standard, then Invade and Split Universe

Giant mobile and electronics empires Nokia and Samsung have decided that it’s best to work together in mobile TV. They want to accelerate the adoption of the technology, all after realizing that past collaborations often brought great benefits to famous former enemies. You know, like funky policemen Starsky and Hutch, great superheroes Superman and Batman…

Pray You’re Not on “The List”: Sylar Coming to Your Cell Phone On Demand

NBC Universal is teaming up with MobiTV to bring its TV shows to the small(er) screen: Full-length episodes of “Heroes,” “The Office,” “Monk,” and “Battlestar Galactica” will be available over the air on demand for $1.99 (awesome) but currently only for “a 24-hour viewing period” (not awesome). Also part of the announced deal are several…

Modeo Mobile TV Service: Hands On, One Day In

Last night, I went to the launch party for Modeo’s Mobile TV NYC beta service and walked away with a fully functional HTC smartphone loaded up with its live Mobile TV service. (No, that’s not my hand in the picture.) The timing is certainly conspicuous but the execs say it’s only validation of their business…

Nokia N77 Now Official: Mobile Widescreen TV, 3G

We had a really cryptic tip about the Nokia N77 last week, but now we have confirmation and actual pictures. It will indeed support mobile TV of the DVB-H variety viewable on its 2.4-inch screen, in addition to the EDGE, GPRS and UMTS standards. It only supports microSD cards up to 2GB in size, meaning…

Nokia To Intro N77 Consumer-Priced Mobile TV Cellphone Next Week?

Big bad Reuters let it slip that Nokia will unveil at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona next week the N77, a consumer-aimed, moderately priced cellphone with TV capabilities. The N77, which should resemble other N7x phones like the N70 here, will be able to receive TV broadcast by way of DVB-H, a nascent mobile TV…

Modeo/HTC Smartphone TV Hands-On

Still currently being beta-tested, this HTC smartphone is the de-facto phone for Modeo Mobile TV. Instead of designing a client that’s usable on any smartphone, Modeo’s gone and partnered with HTC to design a phone just for watching video. https://gizmodo.com/modeo-releases-uber-smartphone-165885 From what we saw—the stream was coming locally because of the lousy meeting room location…