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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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    1. Re:uh... by Coneasfast · · Score: 4, Informative

      No. It's not. It's radio that allows you to get additional info about the song. I agree it's not the most advanced piece of technology, but you can't just simplify it as being 'TV'.

      It's also interactive, while TV is just streaming.

      Hint, hint: RTFA :)

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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. huh? by minus_273 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "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 "

    Somehow i dont think the creation of visual radio (i thought it was called TV) will lead you to become a super power.

    Since the article has ZERO inso on what visual radio is here is a nokia link. To summarize, think proprietary TV with minimal interactivity from the creators of Ngage. You tune into a station and see a "web page" where you get more info and can provide feed back.

    Sounds like real superpower material to me.

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  4. 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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