Your Mobile Phone Deals Out Your Fix Of TV
How many times have we been stuck on the way to work, to put up with a screaming child or the metallic sound of a teenager in the back of a bus, the destruction of our hearing, how to listen to music at ridiculous amounts?
There you may wish you were back home with his feet, watching TV all day and drink a cup of tea. Well, now you can say some of these experiences for the arduous journey itself – cup of tea as an option, of course.
The reason for this is that it is now possible to watch digital TV on the road on some mobile phones.
As with most technological advances, the introduction of mobile TV in Japan. If the new digital TV format was released, it was in 13 segments, divided by those dedicated mobile broadcasting. And so 1seg, taken from the “one-segment”, he thought, was born.
Japanese mobile users could both regular TV content as well as special content for mobile phones on. only. Content was initially limited to news and weather, so the more accurate, as earthquake warnings!
This technology was developed by mobile phone users in Japan, including many 90 million people have already been adopted on the phone for features such as video calls, e-mails and listening to MP3 files.
However, there were teething problems: users complained that the signal was weak and that the service task mph when moving at speeds of 20 or more public transport. In addition, the added energy to the users, programs could from 30 minutes to 1 hours to watch.
The technology was not fully covered by mobile networks, because they are not able to make money are in technology.
Some companies have the ability to theme song for a TV show after the show aired as a ringtone download suggested, but the ideas of this kind were rejected as not everyone would naturally do so in practice.
This is not to stop the makers of these phones 1seg release, however, and it seems that a few years later on the line that the UK has its own equivalent.
Orange now offers “Orange Mobile TV” services to a wide range of Nokia and SonyEricsson phones. The company offers a subscription service where mobile users can select between different groups of channels, the selection of a program channel for £ 5 per month to 28 digital TV channels for £ 10 per month.
This complete package includes many popular TV channels that are normally seen on cable and satellite in the UK, including ITV, BBC 1, CNN and Euro sport, with premium channels other National Geographic with the WWE wrestling.
This course helps service with larger screens, such as the Nokia N95 or Sony Ericsson W950i combines, but the site of Orange indicates that more than 20 mobile phones are currently supported, and that most 3G mobile phones can perform the service. It is unclear whether the other operators are functions that add to their TV service soon.