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Television on your Phone

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-only-amatter-of-time dept.

zxnos writes "Television on mobile is all geared up to be the next big thing as UK provider Orange, rolls out a mobile handset service, which will offer customers top TV shows and channels. Channels such as Cartoon Network and CNN will be made available for a monthly subscription of £10. This will be UK's first TV-on-the-mobile service, which will allow customers to watch news, sport and entertainment programmes on their phone."

8 of 241 comments (clear)

  1. WHY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why would anyone want a phone on their TV? I mean sure it might be convenient, but what if I've been making calls the battery goes flat? I can't watch TV!

    Why can't I get a TV which is just a TV?

  2. And You Thought... by SpottedKuh · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that people using their phones while driving was a problem before?

    1. Re:And You Thought... by ceeam · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh, don't worry - they'll use Bluetooth TV goggles while driving so they don't need to hold TV-phone in their hands.

  3. In related news by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am setting up a new chain of Opticians to cater for all the people who damage their eyesight while trying to watch tv on their mobile.

    I also expect to be recruiting medical staff shortly to cater for all the people who get injured becase they were watching their mobile when they should really have been watching where they were going.

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  4. On the bus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I thought the crazy frog ringtone was anoying. Just imagine people watching re-runs of the eurovision song contest while they go to work!

  5. Re:Economics by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Four cords. You forgot his DVD player, and his amplifier. . .

    Ok, amongst the cords he would have to plug in are. . . I'll post again.

    KFG

  6. No more peace by sean@thingsihate.org · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great now I have to listen to laugh tracks and sports announcers coming from other people's phones when I ride the train or bus.

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  7. Just what we DON'T need! More disctactions. by Tsu+Dho+Nimh · · Score: 1, Funny
    It's bad enough with mobile phones ... all I need is a commuter in a Huummer trying to merge onto the freeway while watching the sports channel to have something to gab about at the office.

    Although watching a commuter in a Hummer, his mobile phone to his ear so it blocked his peripheral vision, try to occupy the same spot in the lane as the loaded gravel truck he failed to spot was entertaining ...