Live TV for Any 3G/3GS iPhone - iPhone to get FLO TV!
Google's Epic Fail: It is just another Droid!
Qualcomm's FLO TV mobile digital television platform is finally coming
to Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, but through an extraordinary and
most unusual vehicle: a popular slip cover / battery pack combo that
also doubles the unit's battery life.
It's an already existing iPhone add-on called the Mophie Juice Pack --
a slip cover that fattens the iPhone and iPod Touch a bit, but also
lets it run long enough for you to watch a movie in its entirety, and
leave some juice left over for conversations. At CES this afternoon,
FLO TV announced an agreement with Mophie to integrate its service
into Juice Pack.
Typically, handheld devices that run FLO TV -- the brand name for
MediaFLO service in the US -- have had to be equipped with a special
antenna chip that enables reception of signals in the mostly
metropolitan areas of the US where FLO TV is available. Last March,
Qualcomm tested the efficacy of a MediaFLO receiver for iPhone that
attaches to the unit through a direct cable, with the receiver itself
about the size of...another iPhone. That went over about as well as
tying it to a lead weight or a bowling ball.
But the next month, FLO TV President Bill Stone indicated his division
would be exploring some type of add-on accessory or attachment for the
iPhone. He gave no details, but reasonable speculation was something
more fashionable of an add-on than a giant red box and a fat cable.
FLO TV is not the US government's standard of choice for mobile
broadcasting right now. It's ATSC -- specifically, the mobile version
of the ATSC standard currently used by US broadcasters to broadcast
DTV. That's the easiest standard for local broadcasters to implement,
because essentially the transmission equipment is already in place and
even in use.
But FLO TV isn't a service for broadcasters. Rather, it uses brand
names from broadcast and pay TV, such as NBC2Go and CBS Mobile, to
provide smaller-package programming that cellular service providers
can offer. Up until now, if you wanted an iPhone, you were locked out
of FLO TV -- which AT&T currently sells to customers of its other
phones for $10 per month.
Mophie Juice Pack Air (minus FLO TV) on iPhoneQualcomm's stroke of
genius here may be finding a way of slipping that antenna chip into
something iPhone customers were already purchasing anyway: fashionable
slip covers with supplemental batteries included. FLO TV could have
engineered one for itself, but why go to the trouble when it could
partner with Mophie instead?
There's no details just yet as to pricing, though we expect there may
be some demo units on the CES show floor this week. Up until today,
Mophie sold its Juice Pack for iPod Touch, and the Juice Pack Air
(pictured right) for iPhone 3G and 3G S, both for $79.95. Since the
service does require a subscription commitment with AT&T, we would
expect the carrier is also involved in some way; both AT&T and Best
Buy have served as Mophie retailers.
Todd Allcock
"Google's Epic Fail: It is just another Droid!" <vic.h...@gmail.com> wrote
in message
news:cbb4dd2f-11cc-4aee...@j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
> iPhone to get FLO TV
>
> Qualcomm's FLO TV mobile digital television platform is finally coming
> to Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, but through an extraordinary and
> most unusual vehicle: a popular slip cover / battery pack combo that
"In a releated story, there's a lightweight add-on peripheral that makes
your iPhone compatible with Mac programs and extends its battery life.
Comprised of a Macbook Air, a strip of velcro to attach the iPhone to the
lid, and a USB cable to charge the phone, this combo adds full Mac
functionality."
SMS
<snip>
> "In a releated story, there's a lightweight add-on peripheral that makes
> your iPhone compatible with Mac programs and extends its battery life.
> Comprised of a Macbook Air, a strip of velcro to attach the iPhone to
> the lid, and a USB cable to charge the phone, this combo adds full Mac
> functionality."
I prefer the MacBook Wheel for this. "http://tinyurl.com/macbookwheel"
Larry
@j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com:
> FLO TV is not the US government's standard of choice for mobile
> broadcasting right now. It's ATSC -- specifically, the mobile version
> of the ATSC standard currently used by US broadcasters to broadcast
> DTV. That's the easiest standard for local broadcasters to implement,
> because essentially the transmission equipment is already in place and
> even in use.
>
> But FLO TV isn't a service for broadcasters. Rather, it uses brand
> names from broadcast and pay TV, such as NBC2Go and CBS Mobile, to
> provide smaller-package programming that cellular service providers
> can offer. Up until now, if you wanted an iPhone, you were locked out
> of FLO TV -- which AT&T currently sells to customers of its other
> phones for $10 per month.
>
>
Am I the only American who is simply amazed that the new ATSC digital TV
broadcast FOR FREE to anyone with an antenna REFUSES to work in any
vehicle doing over 5mph......but if you PAY for a PAY TV service they
tell us is ALSO ATSC that it runs just fine in a moving vehicle?
I'm simply amazed. I have a Dymex 7" portable digital TV that sits by my
computer and is hooked to an amplified UHF antenna up a pole. I get 17
channels some nights when conditions are right from as far away as
Savannah, over 100 miles out across the river.
But, if you take it out in the car, even right under the local 2000' TV
towers, as soon as you drive away from the traffic light, it locks no
matter how much signal it has.
....but ATSC from the PAY TV company, probably coming from the SAME
digital transmitters, doesn't lock?.....
I smell a RAT!
Digital TVs are all individually addressable. Each has an ESN like your
sellphone. At some point, once the conversion to ATSC is complete, "The
Plan" is to let users watch a channel of spam-soaked "free" TV, paid for
by advertising, then have 3 other channels (ATSC is capable of 4 "normal
resolution" discrete signals or one high-definition signal in the
available bandwidth)...3 other channels of PAY TV. You'd call 1-800-
Feed-Me-Money and your TV's ESN, which is displayed on the turned off
channel so you can tell the operator after she verifies your credit card
approval, and she enters your ESN into the data stream that runs
continuously setting that pay channel to ON during the program. "They"
didn't, of course, tell the public of The Plan during the FCC comment
period when this was dreamed up. So far, the horrible condition of the
broadcasting business' revenue stream has kept this from happening. They
are reeling from lack of ad revenues in this depression.
Sure hope this TV scam works better than the Verizon Pay TV scam which
works horribly in Charleston, SC....even with the little phone antenna
pulled out to full length.
nospam
<no...@home.com> wrote:
> Am I the only American who is simply amazed that the new ATSC digital TV
> broadcast FOR FREE to anyone with an antenna REFUSES to work in any
> vehicle doing over 5mph......but if you PAY for a PAY TV service they
> tell us is ALSO ATSC that it runs just fine in a moving vehicle?
why are you watching tv in a moving vehicle? keep your eyes on the road.
Larry
news:070120101527482438%nos...@nospam.invalid:
I know it's hard for your little iphone brain to understand, but only ONE
of us is required to drive non-iphone-owner cars. The REST of us in the
car, the really drunk ones, would like to watch our team lose its ass as
usual, if you don't mind.....
Duhh.....Maybe some shouldn't try other new smartphones. It may be too
confusing.