{"id":3758,"date":"2005-10-03T16:34:20","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T16:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/live-tv-comes-to-cell-phones.html"},"modified":"2005-10-03T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T16:34:20","slug":"live-tv-comes-to-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/consumer-electronics\/live-tv-comes-to-cell-phones.html","title":{"rendered":"Live TV Comes To Cell Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font size=\"2\">It will be a pretty exciting day when you can watch live TV on a cell phone. That exciting day may be much sooner than you thought as an <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20051003\/tc_nm\/telecoms_verizonwireless_tv_dc\"><font size=\"2\">article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> by Reuters points out that Verizon may the first service provider to roll such a service out. Just yesterday I <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/just-in-time-communications-in-video.html\"><font size=\"2\">wrote<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> about how Verizon is leading the pack in providing video via their VCAST service.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this initiative will mean faster adoption of IPTV and more importantly will signal a new era in en entertainment where movie studios will realize they can make a good deal more money if they allow consumers to watch their content wherever they are and on whatever device they choose.<\/p>\n<p>When Apple makes an announcement in the space, expect widespread hysteria by the mainstream media about the changing future of broadcasting.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will be a pretty exciting day when you can watch live TV on a cell phone. That exciting day may be much sooner than you thought as an article by Reuters points out that Verizon may the first service provider to roll such a service out. Just yesterday I wrote about how Verizon is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}