TV On Cellphones Ever Closer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday December 12, 2004 @11:01AM from the jon-stewart-to-the-front-please dept.

Yurian writes "Seems that the new breed of cell-phones are being readied to receive digital TV. The standard has been finalized and handsets are in test. The emergence of DVB-H explains a puzzling purchase made last year by Crown Castle of Houston, Texas. The company, which runs the BBC's transmitter network in the UK, paid $12 million for a 5-megahertz slice of coast-to-coast radio spectrum in the US. At the time no one knew why. But Crown Castle transmitters near Pittsburgh are already broadcasting DVB-H to prototype Nokia mobile TV phones. That purchase may turn out to be an amazing bargain, considering other operators paid billions for 3G licenses which were originally meant to deliver video services."

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Re:Who needs this? by Narphorium · 2004-12-12 11:12 · Score: 3, Interesting

This could be another great way to stream localised data to cellphones via low power transmitters.
For example, you could have a subway scheduals when your in the subway, movie trailers when your waiting in line at the theatre etc.
UK users.. by Gentlewhisper · 2004-12-12 12:42 · Score: 3, Interesting

Will UK users have to pay TV licensing fees for these TV phones?

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