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Visual Radio Coming to India

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tuning-in dept.

morpheus83 writes "India continues to march towards becoming an IT and economic super power. The Indian capital of New-Delhi will become the the third city in the world to have a commercial Visual Radio service after Singapore and Helsinki (Finland). The technology developed by Nokia allows audiences to interact with the radio programs. The audio is received via a regular analog FM radio whereas graphics and text are streamed over a data connection. It will be available to Hutch and Airtel subscribers who have compatible Nokia handsets."

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  1. uh... by brickballs · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Visual Radio"

    Don't they normaly call that TV?

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  2. wow by joe+155 · · Score: 5, Funny

    visual radio, I wonder what it would be like to have pictures along with audio... I can hardly imagine such a thing!

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  3. Explanation by friedo · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, no, no! You fellas have got it all wrong! It's just like radio, but with pictures!

  4. I'd buy it... by docotron · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...if it allows me to electrocute the DJ every time they make a witty remark.

  5. Superpower checklist by xmpcray · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Nucelear weapons - check
    2. Launch satellites - check
    3. ICBM - check
    4. Supercomputers - check
    5. Visual Radio - check! ...and we are done...!

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