Cingular Video debuts
By Ryan Block 
posted Mar 7th 2006 11:17AM
posted Mar 7th 2006 11:17AM
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.
Whats next? Belt buckle video?
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!!
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?
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.
How do you access this stuff? I don't see it on the Media Net menu.
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..
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 user’s phone and operator parameters.