Watching World Cup mobile television videos in the U.K. wasn't an especially pleasant experience -- and not just from the perspective of the poor performance of Britain's soccer team, according to an article posted on NewsWireless.net from an Argogroup press release.
David Frodsham, CEO of Argogroup, said his company's "Monitor Master" software analyzed the performance of World Cup mobile TV and found the viewing experience was a mediocre experience, at best.
However, the experience of watching the videos streamed via the Internet by the BBC wasn't much better -- if at all.
3 better than T-Mobile
Argogroup measured video quality of the games where Britian's World Cup team played.
Argogroup says U.K.'s cellular operator 3 provided better quality the T-Mobile. In fact, based on the limitations of "experimental error," the quality of 3 might have been at least as good as watching videos on a computer using an ADSL line.
The videos over both 3 and the BBC were jerky and blurred, Argogroup says. "The clips were adequate at best," according to Frodsham.
The Monitor Master employs mathematical algorithms to produce a "Mean Opinion Score" (MOS) that's designed to represent as close as possible a person's viewing experience. The score is from 1 to 5 and the MOS for both the BBC and 3 was 3.1 - 3.2, "meaning they are only just acceptable," the company's press release says.
The BBC didn't charge for the videos, but 3 charges £2 ($2.70) for every 1 MB downloaded via its cellular netowork.
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