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Bringing Free Television To Phones In America
ideonexus writes "South Korea, China, Brazil, parts of Europe, and Japan have been watching television on their phones for free since 2005, but American mobile carriers are struggling to offer clunky streaming video using Qualcomm's proprietary MediaFLO system for an additional monthly fee and excessive bandwidth demands. Now, with America having gone digital in June, if Mobile carriers were to have ATSC M/H (advanced television systems committee — mobile/handheld) television-tuner chips built into their handsets it sounds like we could enjoy free TV on our cell phones too; however, these companies have already invested a great deal of money adapting their networks to Qualcomm's format and Qualcomm is considering becoming a mobile television distributor itself."
It never ceases to amaze me how backwards North America has become compared to the rest of the world. And now I find out you can't get TV on your mobos??!!! Of all the nations I'd expect to be first in line for mobile TV it is America (and Australia who are clearly so addicted to sport that the only time anyone takes a dump is during half time). I mean come on - America put the first man on the moon, and did some other really cool stuff. How else can American consumers find out about the latest gut busting Wendy's burger five minutes before lunch? I'm surprised mobile tv isn't given out with every hormone enhanced pre-school "so milky you'll not beleive it's not milk" milk substitute. It is only a matter of time before these nappy wearing proto-consumers will be desparate to hear about citi-bank credit cards and wifi enabled teethers.
>> Seeing it's taking forever to get FM radio added to the iPhone
WTF? That's because ipod and iphone are shitty devices (yeah, mod me troll for that), and there are a LOT of other devices out there with built-in FM receivers for years. Way to go creating a standard out of an inferior device and extrapolating it for everything else.