TV Stations Start Broadcasting to Mobile Gadgets
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New York Times > Technology > BITS > By Saul Hansell
This article was interesting because many people have been able to watch certain movies on their mobile devices via the web for the past few years. However, over the past few year in Asia watching movies via web and broadcasting TV channels via mobile devices has been extremely popular and American companies have not yet got involved in broadcasting TV channels to mobile devices until now. Having many more options when choosing something to watch when your on a long bus ride is never a bad thing.
Currently there is a group of people at Qualcomm who are introducing Flo TV, which will broadcast 20 channels to your mobile device for about $15 a month. They are also saying that there are over 70 channels affiliated with with this new broadcasting standard and that number has potential to grow larger. We should start seeing Samsung, LG and Dell amung the first companies to produce device with this new capability already installed. It seems the drawbacks for companies getting involved in this type of product in the past had to do with the fact that in Asia the same service had been offered installed on mobile devices for free, allowing multiple free TV channels on many mobile phones and devices all over Asia. I believe that this is a great new feature to the ever so rapidly improving and changing world of technology. A feature such as live TV channels on your mobile device seems appropriate since many people watch downloaded tv shows on to ipods and many other mobile devices to watch later. This allows those people and many more who will no longer only have the option to download movies or watch movies via web sites like youtube or hulu but, everyone will now also be able to watch over 70 channels broadcast to your mobile device. I belive this is going to be a great and popular feature for anyone when waiting in an airport or on a bus etc..
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