Thursday, April 20, 2006

Now here's some REAL mobile media.

Ah, gone are the days when you used to just used your cell phone to talk to another person. That device has morphed into a digital camera/video recorder, personal assistant, voice recorder and mp3 player. Now you can add one more thing, on-demand-on-the-move video player. Motorola recently demonstrated their newest technology which would allow you to move recorded TV shows from thier set-top DVRs to their phones, most notably its next-gen RAZR V3x (which as of yet is not available from carriers in the U.S. yet).
Video is transferred to the phone wirelessly. Not across the internet but across you home network and stored in the phone's expandable memory. Which in itself is cool when you realize that phone memory is only around 512 mb right now so I'd be interested to know how many TV shows the phone could hold.

If, like me, you are just itching to watch last night's Veronica Mars on the train ride into work so you can impress the interns at lunch, you can download it to your phone before you leave the house. Is it as convenient as on-demand mobile video from carriers like Verizon and Sprint? No, but your selection is now all the shows you like and have recorded. One more thing, Motorola says that you can also program yourDVR from your cell phone. So when you hear that there's a documentary on the denizens of Middle Earth, that you'll miss 'cause you're stuck in the office reviewing that proposal, you can just schedule to record the show from your phone.

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