TELEVISION AND YOUR MOBILE
Your mobile phone already does so much for you; it keeps you in touch, alerts you to appointments, and plays games. Last year it was music on the mobile that had everyone excited. This year it’s television.
What to Watch
Eventually TV on your mobile will likely expand to offer the same range of channels as are available in your home. For now, there are several dozen channels already available including the Sky Channels Sky News, Sky Sports News, and Sky Travel.
How it Works
Television on your mobile works using broadcast standards designed specifically to relay TV signals to mobile phones and other handhelds. There are currently three standards which are competing for your attention. The first standard is referred to as DVB-H (digital video broadcast –handheld). There is also MediaFlo and T-DMB.
Viewing Requirements
Mobile phones that provide television entertainment have special screens and longer battery life. In fact, with a technology called “time slicing”, these phones provide users with up to eight hours of television time with each battery charge.
Extra Features
As a strictly digital television service, TV on your mobile is interactive and full of extra features. Viewers are able to watch video-on-demand, live TV programs, and mobile TV podcasts.
Mobile TV and Sky
Sky Mobile TV offers over 20 channels for TV on mobile phones. With three packages to choose from, viewers will never miss another minute of their favourite programming. Imagine watching Sky Movies, MTV, CNN and all of your other favourite channels as you commute.
Sky subscribers can now search the Sky TV Guide from their mobile phone and schedule their Sky+ to record their favourite programs.
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