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Comments on: Mobile TV to reach 120 million users by 2012: report

What a Waste of Bandwidth 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 09:14 GMT

Instead of this, can I have the bandwidth used to give me hdtv on Freeview, please?

Screw mobile tv, give us internet tv 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 09:35 GMT

I'm sorry but why are we always looking for new places to put our tv shows when we still don't have any real online source. I want to be able to watch all my usual sky channels where i have a broadband connection, not on a poxy little phone.

Wishful thinking 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 11:54 GMT

Oh, Juniper whatever just got a nice sum of money for producing a report which says what the govt and companies want to hear.

I'm sure there were similar reports about Betamax, 3G and ID cards.

I am yet to meet one person who is really using 3G (I mean not used once or twice as a novelty but regularly, in the normal course of their lives).

Now, who in their right minds would want to watch TV on their mobile phone? If there was a real demand for watching TV on microscopic screens there would have been hand-held TV sets in every electronics store by now next to iPods, but they are a few and far between.

cough cough... bullsh*t.. cough.. 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 13:01 GMT

Anybody else detected a hint of "WAP" hype?

Its good to see the sceptic in everybody, cause whoever published this report really is talking crap, especially if they're suggest this will be in a western market place.

Like Mobile-Web failed, so will this!

optomistic 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 13:22 GMT

what they should be saying is there will be 120 million handsets capable of recieving mobile tv,

no one uses 3g, i bet there is the same amount of 3g phones out there, capable yes, used, um, lets seee, errr, NO

I'm sure by 2012... 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 15:20 GMT

... If you wanted to watch TV on your mobile, chipsets for receiving normal freeview will be small and efficient enough to integrate into a phone.

Of course, this will probably never happen, because why then would we pay the networks for the privilege of receiving DVB-H broadcasts?

And I would use 3G if the price for data wasn't the obscene price it is, £2/MB on O2.

as someone who's got mobile TV 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 17:01 GMT

I never use it - I've got the phone virgin where selling off, as it's a smart phone, radio and it's got a camera... it's also got mobile TV built in. I used it a few times, when it was shiny and new, but haven't turned it on for months, now.

Mobile TV just isn't that usefull or user-friendly. Mobile Digital Radio, now, is another story !

Definetly Optimistic 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 17:12 GMT

Say £35 a month for the contract, a fiver per clip then a £1 per mb to download. Andy is right. Somebody is dreaming.

Mobile TV? Oh, yes, and please shoot me in the face, too! 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 17:34 GMT

My phone does what I need it to do - it makes phone calls, accepts phone calls, sends and accepts SMS text messages, takes very poor photos, and plays a tiny amount of music (think "ringtones" only I'm not paying some schmuck to make them for me; I make my own and transfer them with bluetooth at painfully-slow crawl).

The phone has Internet capability. I have not only never used it, I'd remove it if I only knew how.

Watching TV on my cell phone sounds about as much fun as being vigorously scrubbed with a cheese grater by a large Swedish gentleman.

Pleeeaaase 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 17:44 GMT

We've been here before... small tellies... very uncomfortable staring at a small telly... Oh, and dont forget the License... (bout time it was scrapped, but hey! what a money spinner!!). Then there is the subscription as well.

No... they will plead, and plead that you need it, and there will be a few hoops to jump thru... and some will succumb like a mothe to a flame... then it will just fade away.. like last time.

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