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QuickTime On Your Cell Phone

Posted by timothy on from the the-better-to-drive-with dept.

blamanj writes "Apple and DoCoMo are confirming that a new version of QuickTime is on the way supporting MPEG-4 images over 3G cellular service." Now if only these would make sense in the U.S. ...

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  1. Nokia's Communicator has RealPlayer by DrunkenPenguin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nokia's Communicator cellphone has included RealPlayer for at least 1.5 years.

    1. Re:Nokia's Communicator has RealPlayer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      For example RealPlayer for Linux doesn't need a registry :)

      I think that's a brilliant point. A lot of people on this thread seem to hate Real Player, but they are obviously using Windows version. I have used both Linux and Windows version of the Real Player and the Windows version really is bloated with all kind of crap and it does some nasty things. Linux version is completely trouble free. No annoying ads or messing with file extensions..

    2. Re:Nokia's Communicator has RealPlayer by KAMiKAZOW · · Score: 3, Informative

      Visit the Helix Community and download the Helix DNA Binaries.
      This pack comes with an application called HelixPlay. This player is crappy and not very user friendly, but it's small (~2MB compressed; ~5MB expanded) and has no spy ware. It's enough to view RealVideos, if you have to.

  2. iPhone by iomud · · Score: 4, Informative

    Should be interesting to note that apple also owns this domain.

  3. DoCoMo does NOT serve the "western world"... by interactive_civilian · · Score: 5, Informative
    So...it is pointless because you folks over in the states can't use it? Gimme a break...

    In the country where this is being marketed, there is already an "actual 3G network" in place, so this isn't pointless technology. I am currently a DoCoMo customer who happens to be in the market for a new phone, and I must say, I am quite excited about this. It will be nice to have the media that my phone uses play nicely with my iBook, unlike the format that J-Phone uses, which if sent to a computer, can only be viewed on a PC.

    And this technology is not entirely useless in the US. My family happens to live there, and with this, I will be able to send them quicktime movies from my phone...sure, it is a novelty, but it sounds good to me. :D

    Just my 2 yen.

    --
    "Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
  4. US and 3G by JimBobJoe · · Score: 5, Informative

    Now if only these would make sense in the U.S...

    The Economist had a great article a few months ago about 3G around the world. Asia does lead the US in 3G, and both places are way far ahead of Europe. Essentially, Europe's insistence on one standard, which worked nicely for 2G, screwed the pooch raw with 3G, that, and the fact that Asia and the US didn't license out 3G, so European cell carriers had to take on debt for billions for 3G whereas no one else did.

    There's no doubt in my mind that Asia will continue leading in 3G...for the simple reason that while 3G is developing here in the US, it's been pretty hard to sell Americans on anything other than just talking on the phone. There is some cultural difference that makes Asians all giddy about spiffy 3G features, so it doesn't surprise me to see the newest and greatest 3G tech. over there.

  5. AT&T GPRS vs QT6 by scotty1024 · · Score: 3, Informative

    AT&T thinks they have this capability today in the US with their GSM based GPRS service. But as I see it AT&T has two challenges with customers using something like a QT6 player on a Tungsten via Bluetooth to watch movies. 1. Their GPRS network has still never delivered even 57,600 bits per second to me. 2. At $0.01 per 1024 bytes a two hour movie delivered via their network would cost me around $500 if they were capable of delivering 57600bps!

  6. Yes, they are proprietary. Licensing $$$ by xiphmont · · Score: 3, Informative

    You'll need to license over a hundred actively defended patents to play in the MP4 kiddie pool.

    The standard is well and publicly specced, and this is indeed a much better thing than it being secret. But you're required to pay money even for the right to build your own from scratch.

    Monty