Philips Launching TV on Cellular in the US

An anonymous reader writes "News.com is reporting that Philips plans to soon bring the TV-on-cellular chipset to the US. TV enabled phones should be hitting the stores sometime in 2006 and to ensure that they meet their goal, Philips has partnered with Crown Castle Mobile Media to help make it happen. From the article: 'The company announced a similar chipset--which consists of a TV tuner, a decoder and peripheral components--for the European market earlier in the year. Three out of the six largest handset makers are currently building phones containing the chip for trials that will likely start soon. [...] The U.S. chipset is essentially the same product. "It is a small shift in the frequency band. The rest is all the same," Kaat said.'"

Comments

Throwing out your tv

[Anonymous Coward]

Excellent. This will make "throwing out your tv" so much easier.

Re:Throwing out your tv

[CaptainZapp]

Actually there are world championships in TV^H^H cell phone tossing.

Needless to say that this originated in Finland.

Re:TiVo for Mobile 'Phones

[stunt_penguin]

Also, you can give people you talk to thumbs up or thumbs down ratings. After a while, your phone will decide who you talk to based on past preferences, and if you haven't called anyone in a while it'll automatically ring your favourite person.

Brilliant!

Of course, the third generation devices start introducing while you're waiting for the other person to pick up the phone, and by the time Google are in on the Cellphone act, they'll start analying youro conversations and playing ads ads in the background that are appropriate for the converstion.

We're doomed.