Comments for Mobile TV via SmartVideo

Mobile TV via SmartVideo

2005-05-18T14:06:29Z

Just yesterday I ranted about how U.S. cell phone service providers seem to be dragging their feet in providing mobile TV to cell phones' color LCD displays. My theory is that they are afraid of rampant piracy and want to be sure to protect their "copyrighted content" while at the same time providing a means of generating revenue. Heck, TV commercials have existed since the beginning of time, so why not just display TV commercials for your revenue stream? Duh! Stop worring about piracy, P2P sharing, etc. and just give customers what they want. Sure, there will be some piracy, but last I checked iPods are still popular and Apple is making serious dough via iTunes even with the plethora of illegal MP3s often loaded onto iPods. Illegal cable descramblers exist, but I don't see the cable companies not making money on providing cable TV content. DVD piracy exists, but Hollywood is still making a fortune on DVDs. So quit you bitchin' and give us what we want!

Anyway...Ironically, Front & Sullivan shot me off an email regarding the U.S mobile market providing video content to cell phones that I thought I'd share. The screenshot above is an actual screenshot from SmartVideo's site which according to Frost & Sullivan's email won a Frost & Sullivan's 2005 Entrepreneurial Company Award. SmartVideo's mobile video solutions provide exceptional image quality on all existing 2.5g and Edge cellular networks, as well as future 3g networks at a minimum of 15 frames per second. Currently, they feature content from ABC News, CNBC, DIC, Fox Sports, ifilm, NBC Mobile, The Weather Channel and more.

U.S. Mobile Video Services hold a great revenue potential. However, the industry value-chain participants need an entirely new approach when offering these to the mobile subscribers. It is important to gain confidence of content providers through effective Digital Rights Management (DRM) and attractive revenue share agreements.

SmartVideo is proving itself through a unique business model and advanced technology.

SmartVideo technologies offers mobile video services directly to the end-user through the public Internet port. This means that its services are not a part of the mobile operator's portal. This business model allows them to collect all the service revenues, which it otherwise would have to share with the mobile operators and also gives the content providers a larger portion of the revenues.

SmartVideo's syndication rights management tool offers unique rights management capabilities. It allows geography-specific rights management capabilities to content providers, and effectively addresses the major concerns of content providers with respect to DRM. This tool is also one of the first commercial implementations of this feature.

For its keen understanding of the content owners' requirements and concerns and for leveraging its technological expertise to meet these needs, SmartVideo is a deserving recipient of Frost & Sullivan's 2005 Entrepreneurial Company Award in the U.S. mobile video services market.

Comment from Sinan Jaleel on 2005-12-25

2005-12-25T13:55:23Z

Mobile TV install my nokia 7610. nokia 7610 isn't support mble TV.

Comment from Pioneering free mobile TV service on 2007-06-05

2007-06-05T07:41:56Z

TV on your WAP enabled mobile phone. Type http://yamgo.mobi in your mobile internet browser. They are looking for beta testers to help see if it works on your phone.
Offered by extreme sports mobile TV company Yamgo (www.yamgo.tv). It's a free service (apart from your WAP phone charges).
It works well on my Nokia N70, even the live channels work over a GPRS.

Comment from david on 2007-06-18

2007-06-18T06:08:56Z

The mobile TV version of Yamgo is very cool and works on my Nokia N73 on the 3 network.
I have an unlimited internet package - so its all free for me. I uploaded a few video via their online site:
http://www.yamgo.com and within 10 minutes I was watching them on my mobile phone.
They even have a few live TV channels. Check out my videos on their mobile site http://yamgo.mobi
under the River Surfing category.

Comment from dev000 on 2007-06-18

2007-06-18T06:22:31Z

They seem to be specializing in extreme sports and have a collection of some of the best extreme sports
video I seen. The best thing about the service is it's free. Vodafone charge me every time I want to
watch mobile video, but it's all free to view on Yamgo. I unloaded a video directly from my mobile phone
and it was live within 5 minutes, which was cool. The video on their mobile site at http://yamgo.mobi
was a bit jerky but the video i uploaded was filmed on my phone was it was actually pretty good.

Comment from Ansu on 2007-08-20

2007-08-20T13:00:57Z

Youtube mobile - now from www.yamgo.tv
Wonder how youtube will be like in your WAP enabled mobile phone? Experience for yourself at http://yamgo.mobi from your mobile's browser and be part of the beta test program providing valuable feedbacks. Checkout complimentary service www.yamgo.tv over web.