Live TV Coming to iPhone, iPod Touch
FLO TV and mophie have teamed up to bring live streaming TV to the iPhone and iPod Touch.
During CES earlier today, FLO TV and mophie announced a partnership to develop a series of products that will bring true, live TV to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Mohpie is widely known for its external plug-in batteries, cases, and screen shields. The joint venture will see mophie's battery/case "juice pack" design merged with a FLO TV receiver. This will allow iPhone and iPod Touch users to activate the streaming TV at "the flip of a switch," and serve as battery back-up in-between charges as well.
"We are uniting our vision of advancing mobile TV across a range of devices and platforms with mophie’s unrivaled expertise in designing intelligent cases for Apple users," said Bill Stone, president of FLO TV. "Together, our solution will be a true live mobile TV product available to iPhone and iPod touch users."
The FLO TV service offers streaming content rather than forcing users to download video or wait for infinite buffering. The service contains various well-established networks including ABC, FOX, NBC, MTV, ESPN, CNN, and many others. Like playing games, watching full-length videos--from movies to lengthy TV episodes--can gobble down battery juice. The FLO TV/mophie device will help ease the drain by utilizing the built-in battery pack, preserving the iPhone or iPod Touch's base charge.
Subscribers to AT&T and Verizon can already get FLO TV on select devices: AT&T calls it "Mobile TV" and Verizon calls the service "V Cast Mobile TV." Verizon charges $15 per month for ten channels or $13 per month for four channels. However FLO TV expects the iPhone and iPod Touch devices to ship in the first half of 2010. The company did not provide pricing.
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I can't see spending any amount of money to watch TV on a phone...
To be successful, wouldn't this require a network that actually provides descent bandwidth with reasonable lacency? AT&T isn't known for having a very fast network as it is, for the most part....
why not dvb-h??
What about Orb LIVE?
what about android?
I think you add a device like an external battery pack on your ipod touch which receives digital tv streams. It doesn't use any bandwidth.
With android just wait for apps like phonemypc to do audio too and use your pc/htcp as a medium. That is what I will do... will there be lag... slightly I'm sure especialy at higher quality, but as long as the audio syncs up I will be fine with it. If I need perfect quality ill either go home, dvr it or port it to my phone and not have it be live,...
FLO TV is an entirely seperate network of broadcast antennas that provides encrypted TV broadcasts. This has no bearing on AT&T or Verison or any other carrier that offers the service. Other than the brief handshake needed to make sure you are a paid subscriber. The antennas are polerized for better reception by a mobile (actually moving) device. The network wis in all major markets now, and will be nation wide in the very near future.
Just wait for AT&T's network to grind to a halt with this app. I guess the 'tiered pricing' that AT&T have no plans for will be coming a lot sooner than everyone expects
We need flash support, and Hulu.
To hell with monthly fees! We have enough as it is...
I think you add a device like an external battery pack on your ipod touch which receives digital tv streams. It doesn't use any bandwidth.
Then why the monthly fee?
I work for a TV company and the last thing I want to do at the end of the day is watch Tv at home, let alone on my PHONE. In fact I just gave my TV away and HULU desktop is a great fix when I need it.
Great, there goes what's left of the bandwidth already being hogged by a minority of iPhone users. Glad my carrier doesn't sell iPhones and we don't have any bandwidth issues because of it.
I agree with whoever said "why would anyone want to watch TV (or a move for that matter) on their mobile phone, other than the "I can so I will" mentality.