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Originally Posted by crazycamper
new news good news. (yer right)
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well not exactly new news or even good news, but it seems the current postal advertising "Look Into The Future,its 24mm across and it's called cable" the one with a hole drilled through it(more cost), states that it is the TVdrive(with old tech mpeg2 instead of AVC) that "It Should Be Available To Everyone By Early 2007".
in other news, it seems Virgin Mobile (aka NTL:tw) are going to use another off the wall standard (for todays and future markets) handheld mobile video format, instead of the growing DVB-H (or its future incarnation DVB-H2) they are going with the failing 'DAB digital radio system'.
http://informitv.com/articles/2006/0...movioprovides/
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8 September 2006
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BT Movio provides platform for Virgin Mobile TV
BT has launched the line-up for its wholesale mobile television offering, BT Movio, which will include the three leading channels in the UK. Virgin Mobile will be the first mobile operator to offer the service.
Delivered using the DAB digital radio system, the BT Movio service combines live television and digital radio with a seven-day programme guide and ‘red button’ interactivity."
and heres the good news, considering all the NTL:tw users are being pushed in to the virgin mobile direction for service and you get a Lobster phone as incentive then you might think you can use that new phone for this as a valued NTL:tw/Virgin user...
errr hange on..., NO YOU CANT ! use that free mobile phone for this mobile video service.........
plus it doesnt seem to be included in the special upgrade phone offers if you follow the official NTL:tw links to the virgin sites, and dont be suprised if you get put on a totally different pricing package with hidden costs as the T&C seems to emply you will be.
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Virgin Mobile will be the first mobile phone company to offer the service. The mobile operator was recently acquired by cable company NTL Telewest.
Alan Gow, managing director of Virgin Mobile said: “We are really excited to be able to offer our customers the same brands and high quality of programming that they expect on their television at home.”
The service will initially
only be available on just one model of phone, the Virgin Mobile Lobster 700TV, manufactured by HTC, which is
the first DAB-IP enabled device in the world. A series of other models is being developed to support the service."
and its "
the first DAB-IP enabled device in the world" because almost everyone else in the world has already bypassed DAB-IP and moved almost wholesale to the far more standard better speced and supported DVB-H(2) format,another steller move from the board members there it seems.... arrr well.
i guess we wont be seeing any of this
http://informitv.com/articles/2006/1...liverscurrent/
“This is a big step in fulfilling Current’s mission of sparking a global conversation among young adults,” said Al Gore, the chairman of the channel and former vice president of the United States. “Bringing our
viewer created content model to the UK and Ireland will give millions of young viewers the opportunity to not only watch, but also to create, television programming that is relevant to them.”
interactivity (remember my user video blogging/streaming using faster upstream and even multicasting etc)from the under speced/under powered TVdrive.