Forbes Video: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Watching Television on Your Cell Phone

Last week, Forbes.com launched a new video show called "The Download", a weekly program they classify as "an in-depth yet concise look at the Internet technology".

For the first episode they look at what the mobile carriers are offering in the way of mobile TV and how it all works. They discuss cost, the handset hardware and what the barriers to entry are. You'll have to watch it at the Forbes.com site as they don't allow anyone to embed their videos and the quality of the video seems a bit poor, but I like the laid back style of the show so far.

Comments

[aikanae]

Pretty funny. I doubt the figure is 1.3%. I think that figure only represent people who subscribe v. people who are actually using online video services. The commercial content should be embarrassing. It's nothing I want to watch and clearly it's available based on what the producer paid to make it available (product placement) and not consumer driven.

There are some very active private websites - no ads - that deliver popular content and are clean, simple, efficent, plus actually work. That's it. Everything else is junk.

I think the industry should be ashamed for disabling technology rather than embracing it. I can load up to 4 movies on my 2 gb SD card. Why would I want to pay another $5 bucks for a movie I already own - anymore than I would want to pay $5 for a 30 second ringer from a song that only costs a dollar?

There are way more than 1.3% using video - it's just not through commercial services - that offer little but insult my intelligence.