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Access to favorite shows should be coming to Verizon phones soon
(old news - 12:14PM Saturday Jan 06 2007)
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At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this weekend, Verizon Wireless is expected to “announce the much-anticipated launch of its mobile television service”, reports Telecommunications Industry News. The company has teamed up with QuallComm in the use of the latter’s MediaFLO technology which offers rapid streaming video quality to Verizon phone users. “The service, which should be in operation by the end of March, will consist of eight channels and will include popular shows from NBC, CBS, Fox and MTV,” according To a Reuters Yahoo! News report.

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TweakFreak88

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Trenton, MI

Interesting

I wonder how successful this would be.
permalink · 2007-01-06 12:27:03 · Reply to this
qworster

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January 6th, @01:36PM

*YAWN*

Watching TV shows on a two inch wide screen - now THAT'S worth paying 10-15 dollars a month for!

I've seen MediaFLO. It's a maximum of 24 channels (Twenty will normally be used). Two sets of channels - one for each coast. Fifteen frames per second (Half that of SDTV). Looks okay on the two inch screen they plan to show it on, but if blown up much bigger, it falls apart.

I'd be surprised if this product flies....
permalink · 2007-01-06 13:36:16 · Reply to this
SD6

join:2005-03-26

Walled Garden

There is no video competition on VZ Wireless, so I don't expect this to be cheap and it probably won't be worthwhile either.
permalink · 2007-01-06 15:47:10 · Reply to this

bigunk
Gort, Klattu Birada Nikto

join:2001-02-10
Santa Clarita, CA

Re: Walled Garden

It'll suck, and VZW will close your account for bandwidth abuse because the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
permalink · 2007-01-06 21:52:36 · Reply to this
llmo128

join:2007-01-06
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Tv on a phone with with the "V-Team"!�

this has got to be some trick, its a trick I say. we know you can't stream anything with these guys. it may by a plan to dig our own grave but lets just hope that the people with evdo can use this to there advantage knowingly we can't watch tv on a small screen for 3 hours. cross you're fingers.�
permalink · 2007-01-06 23:36:30 · Reply to this
tmc8080

join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY

money LOSER

doesn't Verizon typically lose money on these sorts of ventures, not carefully screened by potential/current customers? i see no clamoring for mobile tv... cheaper phones/service, unlimited usage plans/data/messages yes..
tv.. no
permalink · 2007-01-07 06:32:11 · Reply to this
rickonline

join:2005-11-15
North Bergen, NJ

Another useless service

This will be another feature in the VCAST service. So you will have to pay $15.00 for VCAST plus around $10.00 more for Live TV. Plus you may have to buy a new phone with the Live TV feature. I don't think current phones will work with this new feature. It's all a big waste of money. You will have to be in a EV-DO area and there will be plenty of buffering. It will not be at all like watching a show on the iPod.

Another useless service for people with money to burn.
permalink · 2007-01-07 08:45:12 · Reply to this
qworster

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January 7th, @10:31PM

It uses UHF channel 55...

MediaFlo (a division of Qualcomm) bought UHF channel 55 in the entire USA. TV channels above 50 will cease to exist in 2009 due to DTV, and Congress has been selling this spectrum off to the highest bidder.
MediaFlo used compression to put 24 TV channels into this space. They also have to build channel 55 TV transmitters in all major cities (already happening).
YES you will need a new phone for this - as the phone has a channel 55 TV receiver in it.

Also, this is broadcast, so it's NOT interactive.
permalink · 2007-01-07 22:28:23 · Print · Reply to this
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