Cingular Video debuts
Verizon's got V
CAST, Sprint's got Sprint TV, so where's Cingular's offering? Why, it's here: the nation's largest carrier launched
their first two 3G handsets yesterday, the LG CU320 and Samsung's ZX10, is also officially
concurrently launching Cingular Video. It'll take the shape of a 3-5 minute clip service with video streams from 18
channels, including the likes of NBC and ESPN. Did we mention it's free to customers of their unlimited Broadband
Connect data package? Because it is, and it's a good thing, too -- if you're gonna go walled-garden-mobile-TV, at least
make make it free to your customers, right? And for those who want yet another feature to pay for monthly can plunk
down the extra $5 and pick up access to
those HBO clips. Guess this'll be a great experiment to determine whether or not
people really do want to
watch short-form video programming on their mobiles.
Filed under: Multimedia, ATT
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Michael Justice @ Mar 7th 2006 11:51AM
Whats next? Belt buckle video?
JonJon @ Mar 7th 2006 11:55AM
The CV (cingular Video) of today is the AV (at&t Video) of tomorrow. Anyhoo..Good job on content Cingular! Ohh and it's free!!
Mike W @ Mar 7th 2006 12:31PM
What about a Windows Mobile device? Anyone know if there's any sort of DRM junk that won't play nice with WMP 10 mobile?
Xultar @ Mar 7th 2006 12:38PM
Did I read that it was just clips?
WTF is the point? Who want's to watch clips? Clips are commercials. And are we supposed to get all excited because the commercials are free?
Do they think we are idiots? I think they do. What an effin shame.
Larry L @ Mar 7th 2006 12:48PM
How do you access this stuff? I don't see it on the Media Net menu.
John @ Mar 13th 2006 8:14AM
Lol so it looks not no one cares about T-Mobile. Wonder if they will follow the others? or if they will try and one up the other companies. Stuff like that makes me think..
Jay Borges @ Aug 2nd 2007 8:25PM
There is already a free mobile video application called blueapple.mobi that lets mobile users search and watch ALL types of internet videos on their mobile phones. It is similar in concept to video applications such as Bebo, YouTube, Yahoo video, MSN video, etc. where a user can search for and watch internet videos on their PC, even user generated videos.
The application is very simple to use. A user just goes to http://www.blueapple.mobi on their mobile phone, they can search for any video content they would like to watch. Blueapple will return to the user, a list of all relevant videos. Blueapple will either stream or download the video depending on the users phone and operator parameters.