MobiTV: So close to being so cool

[enigmatl]

You know, before I got my media phone with Sprint, I thought the reason MoboTV wouldn't be all that cool was because there's no way it wasn't gonna look like utter crap. Wow! I was wrong. It's so close to being cool that it's a crime. lol Adult Swim (cartoon network anime) on my cell phone? What a cool idea I thought. Sadly, it's these little 30+ second clips, darn it! I come thinking this isn't gonna work for now cause people aren't gonna pay for crap after the first month of trying it. Instead, I go out thinking what a waste of wonderful technology. It looks and sounds beautiful. It's 15fps of course but on my tiny screen and after about 30 seconds of watching, your brain kinda filters out the almost non-existance of choppiness. And then they take this wonderful working technology and give us....CLIPS. Darn you, Sprint! Little do they know that if they gave me episodes, I'd actually pay for some channels. I hope this happens someday. I guess they've left me no choice. I suppose I'll just have to join the ranks of those who are watching the simpsons on a datacard! Costs less, sounds great, and the people on the metro will probably mug me out of jealousy.

[sloop]

what are you wanting to do? if the goal is to watch tv - it can be done over sprint's network with the right hardware - spinedoc has control of his cable box - and can watch anything on his device live

[steb0ne]

what are you wanting to do? if the goal is to watch tv - it can be done over sprint's network with the right hardware - spinedoc has control of his cable box - and can watch anything on his device live


That's what I want. How'd he do that?

[sloop]

pdaphonehome has a thread on it - as i understand it, it goes like this - cable box (or tivo) to tuner card in your pc - i/r blaster to cable box to send i/r signal - he uses beyondtv somehow - he also has a ppc 6601 or ppc 6600 pda phone - i think beyondtv is a one time purchase so there is no subscription fee - he said its nice to watch hbo anywhere he likes - i am gonna try it but i need to research the tuner cards - i want the signal conversion to be a function of the tuner card hardware - not the pc software - but the next purchase is gps - then i'll look into beyondtv