Another Dot Com

In my previous entry, I covered a mobile device, i-Station, that was DMB compatible. And, I wanted to follow up and talk a little more about it. Since 2005, folks in S.Korea enjoys watching TV on their DMB cell phone as well as on other DMB enabled mobile device. The contont is delivered to the DMB device thru Satellite DMB(S-DMB) and Terrestrial DMB(T-DMB).

Here’s how S-DMB and T-DMB works:

Really cool, right? Well, I think so. In the U.S., we are just beginning to see video clip downloads on our cell phones. Before, we had to settle with ringtone downloads, downloaded games, and photos….Weak! Most cell phones we call cutting-edge and new are old news to folks S.Korea - in Korea, most cell phones and some handheld wireless devices are and have been DMB enabled for over a year (I’ll post some DMB phones on my next entry).

One some mobile device, you can record real-time. I can see it now….Tivo on handheld or Tivo control on handheld and content saved to a virtual folder (This way, you can set it and do other things on your handheld.). Most of you are lucky. Why? because you don’t know what you are missing. Me, I’ve tried it and I like it…and I miss it when I’m on the go - waiting for a flight, waiting for a meeting, just waiting, etc.

Little more info on DMB? (Click image to see full description)


If you want to read more about TV on cell phone, click here. I found this paper written by a PHD candidate in U of Mich that covers DMB in S.Korea.

I came across a product called i-Station on my trip to Seoul. i-Station is a handheld media player with some really kick*ss features. It’s media player (plays mp3,ogg,wma/radio/video/photo); it’s a DMB TV viewer; it’s a Navigation device (on some versions); it’s mini computer with Wi-fi. I really like the DMB feature. Folks in S. Korea can enjoy digital TV on their handheld DMB device - all S.Korean network tv channels are available thru DMB.