FLO TV has announced a time-shifting DVR function to allow users to save their favorite programs and watch them at a later date. While DVR is a nice feature it will start to make you ask the question why you are paying for that monthly subscription when you could watch the same programs and buy them individually on iTunes, downloading to your iPad, iPod or iPhone and pay only for the content you really [...]
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#5. Vizio Razor LED TV’s #4. FLO TV Featuring a 3.5″ , 320 x 240 pixel resolution touch-screen display, built-in speakers, audio output and a wide variety of available programming compared to most current MDTV markets FLO TV is coming out of the gate strong. However, FLO TV has several drawbacks that we believe in time will see the service fade. First, FLO TV requires not only a $250 equpiment charge for the 3.5″ display, but also requires a monthly programming charge unlike other devices sporting a ATSC-M/H tuner and allowing you to pickup free over-the-air broadcasts. Availability and programming are also limited as local broadcasters continue to adopt free MDTV broadcasts. FLO TV has a good backing and a large headstart, but we believe free will win out in the end. [...] Live, mobile TV is coming to the Big Apple. Mopar is channeling live, mobile TV into Chrysler, Jeep®, Dodge and Ram vehicles. The company will showcase its new technology at the 2010 New York International Auto Show. Chrysler Group LLC is the first automaker in the United States to offer live, mobile TV to consumers. The system offers something for everyone: college and professional sports, breaking news, children’s shows, primetime sitcoms, reality TV and daytime [...] I attempted to boot up the device to explore the user interface, even though I realized I was too far from Reno (not to mention the intermediary mountain chain) to be able to snag service. The unit powered up, I got to the initial splash screen…and then the FLO TV locked up hard. No key press, not even the power button, would provoke a response. I had to yank out the battery, after first going online to figure out how to get the back panel off, in order to shut the FLO TV down. [...] In a press release Thursday the On Demand Group and The Walt Disney Company UK announced a deal to provide subscribers with on-demand access to entire episodes of hit television shows via 3 UK’s first ever mobile TV subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service. Under the terms of the deal Disney will offer hundreds of episodes to [...] SAN DIEGO, March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — FLO TV Incorporated, the company that innovated the mobile broadcast TV category, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), today announced it has expanded its partnership with Turner Broadcasting to bring consumers CNN Mobile, a channel that includes programming from CNN/US, CNN International and HLN, as well as CNN.com content. The channel will be available on the FLO TV™ Personal Television and FLO TV Auto Entertainment platforms, in addition to its current availability as part of AT&T Mobile [...] Coda Research Consultancy Ltd. has released a new 34 page report thoroughly assessing the mobile TV and video market and behaviour in the US. This report includes revenue and user projections to 2015, in-depth analysis of challenges and opportunities, and recommendations throughout. [...] Chrysler is set to begin channeling live, mobile TV into Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and Ram vehicles. The company will showcase its new technology in a Ram 2500 at the 2010 Dallas Auto Show. Chrysler will become the first automaker in the United States to offer live, mobile TV to consumers in over 100 U.S. metropolitan areas. The system offers something for everyone: college and professional sports, breaking news, children’s shows, primetime sitcoms, reality TV and daytime [...] CBS Sports Mobile, in partnership with CBSSports.com, CBS Sports and the NCAA, today announced new mobile products for the 2010 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. Following up on last year’s extremely popular NCAA March Madness on Demand (MMOD) app, CBS is distributing both the premium, live-video app as well as a free “lite” [...] I like the idea of a portable TV, a handheld device that you can take with you wherever you are and watch the shows that you want, when you want. And I think that FLO TV is heading in that direction with its mobile TV network. But the company’s Personal Television, a dedicated mobile TV device, has to deliver a lot if it’s going to convince people to carry yet another device in their pockets. Right now, at least, the Personal Television isn’t convincing me that it’s worth its weight, as it suffers from reception that’s more a miss than a hit, a limited selection of content, and a price that’s just too [...] |
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