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Originally Posted by Pmax11
i have seen commercials for AT&T and the LG Vu about being able to watch March Madness on your phone and I was wondering if you could do that on a G1 with T Mobile. If not, can you on any phone with tmo? Thanks.
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Hmm... no one responded to you, so I will.
I saw those ads for TV on phones, from time to time. I am not aware of any phone that has actual broadcasts on cell phones, but I have not kept up with it since my experience with it about five years ago, on Sprint. Back them video on a phone was a true innovation, and TV even more remarkable.
Alas, it was not true TV, it was Sprint simply downloading video clips, most about 60 seconds, some maybe two minutes. Most offerings were news clips.
I sold that phone after a few months since the clips were lousy and it was not true TV.
About three years ago people were trying out MobiTV on their Blackberries (me included) because it was supposedly TV. But I could not get it to work, nor could others, from the service on the phone carrier who offered it (Rogers in Canada.)
I don't know if MobiTV is now true TV. I have not kept up on them. Back then they too were a video clip provider, except they had programs from broadcasters offered, rather than Sprint's 60 second clips. The Site now says they offer "live television" so it may well be.
So the next question would be, will it work with the G1? I dunno, search their Site. They expanded their market by making the service compatible with more and more handsets, and carriers. T-Mo may not be on their list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobiTV
http://www.mobitv.com/gettv/
As to other phones by T-Mo, I suspect they would announce that as a major launch, a phone that gets TV. So maybe that has not been worked out yet.
From a practical standpoint, I can't see Google, HTC and T-Mo agreeing that the G1 could act as a TV (e.g., MobiTV or a competitor) since the whole point of the collaboration between them is to get users (you) to watch YouTube and other Google offerings. Seems to me that they would not do anything that might cause you to watch a competitor's product (TV) over what's playing on YouTube.
Plus, from T-Mo's side, I suspect watching TV would suck up available bandwidth if millions of people were watching TV. If T-Mo comes out with a phone that has TV capability, they are going to make users pay for that privilege.
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