Phone Makers Turn On Mobile TV
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Imagine turning on your mobile phone to watch breaking news or an entertainment program. The idea could soon become reality following an announcement last week that five of the world&#39;s largest mobile phone
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Blog: The TV ratings company is expanding to monitor cell phone use, including mobile Internet and mobile video.
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Experts say it is only a matter of time before the 2.2 billion mobile phone users around the world consider it natural to tune into a 15-second spot.
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Miniature mobile phones, which already double as cameras, Internet devices and music players, are poised to merge with the largest of home appliances, the television.
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Five of the world's top mobile-phone manufacturers are joining forces on the delivery of TV broadcasts to handsets, opening yet another opportunity for content providers and hoping to drive demand for next-generation wireless devices and services.
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With a covetous eye on the success of portable music players, mobile phone makers are going after would-be iPod buyers by building high-quality players into their handsets.
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By Rozana Sani  THE thought of watching TV on handheld mobile devices has never been that appealing to many. Apart from the small screens, nothing much seems to be happening except for pure live TV re-broadcasting that can only have a true impact through its traditional interface.
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(InfoWorld) - Watching TV on a mobile phone could get more interesting next year with new technologies that promise to bring TiVo-like recording functionality to portable devices. Texas Instruments is demonstrating PVR (personal video recording) capabilities for mobiles at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam this week. It is using its own Hollywood digital TV chip and OMAP 2 multimedia processor, along with software from partners PacketVideo and Software Systems (S3). The technology allows people to record a TV program on their mobile phone and then watch it later, on the train on the way to work, for example. The TI package also provides "picture-in-picture" capabilities, allowing a person to watch a prerecorded program and also track a live sports event in a smaller, on-screen window. The PVR technology should find its way into mobile phones in 2007, TI said. It didn't name any handset makers but most of the big vendors, including Samsung ElectronicsÂ and Nokia, are marketing phones for TV viewing. The companies hope the PVR capabilities will draw more people to mobile TV, which the telecommunications industry has been marketing heavily as a way to generate more revenue from consumers and make use of the high-speed 3G wireless networks that operators have been building. Predictions vary for how quickly mobile TV will take off. In-Stat predicts there will be 3.4 million mobile TV subscribers by the end of the year, jumping to 102 million by 2010. Strategy Analytics Inc., another researcher, said the hype around mobile TV remains out of proportion to the evidence of consumer interest. Including PVR capabilities improves the value proposition of mobile TV, but it's unclear whether it will make more consumers willing to pay for it, said Strategy Analytics analyst Nitesh Patel. Offering a picture within a picture on a small portable handset screen is "a bit ambitious," he noted. "It will be interesting to see how this products ties into how much memory gets bundled into handset," he said. "I'm presuming that a lot of memory will be required to store a 1.5 hour movie." If the video is recorded using the H.264 standard, a gigabyte of memory would be enough to store about three hours of 30-frames-per-second video for display on a QVGA 320-by-240-resolution screen, a TI spokeswoman said. Phone makers would decide whether to use flash memory or a hard disk, and how much memory to offer. The demonstration at IBC used TI's DTV1000 Hollywood processor, which is based on the DVB-H mobile TV standard and combines a tuner, demodulator, decoder and some memory on one chip. It also uses its OMAP2430 processor, which can decode two TV channels simultaneously, providing the picture-in-picture capability. The device used was a hybrid phone/PDA built for TI by PacketVideo for the purpose of the demonstration. The OMAP chip has video-out capabilities, which means people on the road could watch their prerecorded TV content on a TV in a hotel room, for example, so long as the phone maker provides the right outputs. Other developments are under way to make mobile TV more palatable for consumers. Samsung said this week it is developing a new display driver that adjusts the brightness of a display according to ambient lighting conditions. Due for mass production at the end of this year, it It should make displays easier to view in broad daylight, Samsung said.
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The mobile phone industry has been  predicting for years that the future of television is wireless.
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Texas Instruments Inc. said Thursday that it has begun work on a chip that would allow users to receive digital television broadcasts on mobile phones in time for the technology&#39;s rollout in 2007.
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BBC One, ITV1 and Channel 4 are to be broadcast to mobile phones as part of a new mobile TV service.
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ITV has begun simulcasting its TV shows on mobile phones, making it the first  UK terrestrial broadcaster to do so.   As part of a deal with network operator 3, ITV's primetime shows are being aired on mobile handsets at the same time as on TV.
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Not just another channel for broadcasters Traditional broadcasters need to understand that mobile TV is not just another channel but must be used differently if they are to get to grips with the new market.â¦
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The top two U.S. wireless providers are starting to let customers use their mobile phones to remotely record television shows, hoping the new service will help them compete against rivals.
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Europeans are a step closer to having television on their mobile phones: Two groups of companies said they would push forward with consumer trials and establish a standard for the technology.
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A new startup hopes to draw cell phone users with a service that allows them to design channel lineups for watching videos on their phones.
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Now you can project different images of yourself on the mobile phone, depending on who's calling.