LONDON, England – I’ve spent the last few days playing with the N96 and drawn like a midget to a lightbulb to its BBC iPlayer application. The N96 comes packing a DVB-H tuner, which means it can receive TV signals, which in turn enables it to play terrestrial TV. So far so good. Except in the UK there isn’t an form of mobile TV service right now. The UK Nokia team is doing its bit with Capsule N96 – the home-grown TV station designed specifically for the N96, but the real gap-filler has to be iPlayer.
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UK – The elusive beast that is mobile television has yet to tightly wrap its tentacles around the globe, however on-the-go telly is clearly still on the menu looking ahead.
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SAN MATEO, USA – Despite mobile TV being a perennial buzzword, it’s now taken to humming in the background while other tangible and more readily accessible services such as GPS location-based software hog the limelight. That said, regardless of the challenges live mobile television faces in establishing itself in many countries, alternative solutions are being championed. As is the case with Hava Mobile Player, created by Monsoon Multimedia – one of the developers cherry-picked for support as part of the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series program.
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GLOBAL – Mobile TV in the UK has yet to take off like it has in Japan
and Korea. If you pop over to Jan Chipchase’s Future Perfect blog you’ll discover an
interesting case study on how mobile TV is consumed over in Seoul, South Korea. Jan, who works for Nokia’s Design in Technology Platforms group, ruminates about many facets of society and technology while on his extensive travels. His entries on commuting and how it differs around the world are particularly fascinating.
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BERNE, Switzerland – Mobile users in Switzerland have just bagged themselves a new treat in the form of Mobile TV. The Bluewin TV mobile service uses DVB-H and spits out 20 channels in a quality users have previously only seen on TV at home. The service costs CHF16 per month or CHF 2 per day and can be used with the rather luscious (even if we say so ourselves) N77, which supports DVB-H as standard.
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RABAT, Morocco – Sometimes new tech shows up in the oddest of places. And so it is that mobile TV is currently being rolled out across Morocco, starting with Rabat and Casablanca and another eight cities being added before the end of the year and 20 cities by the end of next year.
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SINGAPORE – As Europe creeps ever closer to adopting an EU standard mobile TV format, Singapore has boldly taken the plunge into live mobile television. Southeast Asian telecoms titan SingTel has announced that people using it’s 3G service will be able to sign-up for the new service that officially powers-up this Saturday 24 May.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium – Mobile TV got a welcome boost from the European Union yesterday in its decision to urge member countries to adopt the DVB-H mobile TV standard.
In a move should help rapidly evolve the development of TV on mobile phones, the deadlock between competing technologies can now finally be broken.
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LONDON, England – I’ve spent the last few days playing with the N96 and drawn like a midget to a lightbulb to its BBC iPlayer application. The N96 comes packing a DVB-H tuner, which means it can receive TV signals, which in turn enables it to play terrestrial TV. So far so good. Except in the UK there isn’t an form of mobile TV service right now. The UK Nokia team is doing its bit with Capsule N96 – the home-grown TV station designed specifically for the N96, but the real gap-filler has to be iPlayer.
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