Today marks the three-year anniversary of Mobile TV Report. On June 12, 2006 I posted five articles about mobile television, plus a sixth introductory piece (see below). Thanks for reading!
I have sometimes been lax in posting (whatdayawant? it's free!), but I've been looking at and evaluating mobile TV for years for my own edification as well as for my wireless data consulting clients. Before establishing a separate weblog, I covered mobile TV in my camera phone weblog, but decided the subject deserved a weblog all its own.
I've been analyzing wireless communications for more than 30 years, and spend a lot of time pondering what could be and what is likely to be (including writing a column about the future of wireless and wired Internet).
Nyah, nyah to naysayers
Just as there were naysayers about the value and growth of camera phones when I first began writing about that technology, so there are naysayers now about mobile TV. And, just as the camera phone naysayers have been proven wrong, so will the mobile TV naysayers go down in flames. (There's nothing quite like a flaming naysayer, wrapped in his/her discredited spreadsheets, to provide warmth and shimmering colors as he/she plunges earthward!)
The future -- and present -- of cellular phones includes all types video: Streaming and archived mobile TV, streaming and archived videos, long clips, short clips and, yes, full length movies.
We humans love watching the movement of colorful images accompanied by sounds. That's the way it is.
Goodbye pygmies
So while the pygmies analysts and journalists (which I am both) continue to debate whether mobile TV will succeed and split hairs over whether a three-minute clip is too short or a movie is too long, the wireless video business will continue to evolve.
Again, thanks again for reading, and please feel free to comment on any article or contact me via e-mail.
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