Pranjal Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 While Sony's been dealing with exploding batteries, PS3 craziness and now a recall for some Cyber-shot cams, the Japanese behemoth's handset division is trying to expand into the mobile television sector by partnering with Ericsson. Already the two form a significant presence in cellphones with the Sony Ericsson brand, and they hope to continue that with television as well. Per Nordlof, Ericsson's director of Product Strategy, said at a press conference in Stockholm on Thursday that a third of the world's mobile phone users will be watching TV on their handsets on a regular basis by 2008 -- something the folks at Qualcomm and others are thinking, too, with MediaFLO and the like. According to The Associated Press, the corporate duo is also working on a way to send clips from your living room's TV directly to a handset. Of course, if you don't want to wait until 2008, you could just buy a Slingbox or a Sony LVTV Box right now for the same effect. Link: Sony's future plans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox09 Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 Well, that's +1 more things that you can do in an airplane bathroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew1g Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 (edited) Sorry for the bump, but I couldn't help but reply. Me being a mobile freak and all ... There's already TV on mobiles, Via a technology called EDGE. it's basically another type of connection like GPRS, 3G and Wifi. It's fast enough to stream TV Edited December 20, 2006 by matthew1g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vint_cool Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Sorry for the bump, but I couldn't help but reply... There's already TV on mobiles, Via a technology called EDGE. it's basically another type of connection like GPRS, 3G and Wifi. It's fast enough to stream TV Never believe a moron who can sell you the idea that real time TV/on demand TV can be sent thru EDGE or for that matter any other technology on mobile - atleast as of now ! It might be possible with 3G(UMTS)/Wi-Max, but its extremely futuristic, as real time video is an extremely vast amount of data and supporting the entire thing on the mobile air interface is something that is very difficult although not impossible....what might be possible thru EDGE is non-real time or non-on demand videos ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew1g Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 They do stream real time Tv here via edge. With a bit of a delay yes. But it's the same as streaming TV over the internet without having a tv tuner card or anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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