Watching MP4 Videos on Your TV

I've gotten a hold of a series of videos in MP4 format and it has served it's purpose of being quite portable (watching videos on the go sans iPhone or PSP). Occasionally, I'd like to playback these videos at the comfort of my living room over my big screen TV (these videos were converted at 640px or higher). There is probably a million ways to do this nowdays (media PC, network storage, streaming, etc...), but the two methods I've been using has worked out quite well and doesn't require an intensive setup or technical knowledge:

Method 1: MP4 Playback from iPhone to TV via AV Cables
This is a tried and true method which I've done a write up for Griffin's Component Cable. Whats really nice about this method is that if you have to leave the house, you can unplug your iPod or take your iPhone with you and watch the videos on your commute. It does take a bit longer to sync your videos over iTunes and that is just the name of the game.

Method 2: Load in Jumpdrive and Watch via Playstation 3
This method has it's advantages in that loading the videos to a high speed jumpdrive such as my SanDisk Cruzer 8GB (Amazon, $13) is much faster than iPod to sync, I can also fast forward and pause via my Sony PS3 Bluetooth remote which adds many creature comfort over method above.

To set this up, connect your jumpdrive to your PS3 and go to your PS3 video menu and select USB drive; be sure to hit the triangle button to bring up the system menu and select "display all". Otherwise it may not recognize your videos. Some people said it would be better if you created a VIDEO folder and drop your files into there, it's up to you on how you want to manage your file structure. This method even gives you the option to copy your videos to the PS3 harddrive, but it was playing back just fine right off the jumpdrive in my scenario.

Obviously, this method offers a lot of convenience but I will lose the mobility of taking these videos with me while I'm on the go unless I opt for more advanced setup, such as remotely stream the videos from PS3 hard drive to my PSP over wifi.

MediaFLO USA to Provide Live College Football Games Mobile TV

MediaFLO USA will carry the live, full-length college football games on its award-winning mobile TV service throughout the 2008 season. MediaFLO USA’s mobile TV service is available to AT&T subscribers as AT&T Mobile TV and to Verizon Wireless customers as V CAST Mobile TV.AT&T and Verizon Wireless subscribers have access to more than 200 hours of live programming, including all six Notre Dame

MobiTV Now Manages Four Million Subscribers

MobiTV today announced that its managed network for mobile television and radio has surpassed four million subscribers. Since launching its first mobile television service in November 2003, MobiTV is available on more than 15 carrier networks, including Sprint, AT&T Wireless, Alltel, Telus, Rogers and Bell Mobility among others.With unlimited channel capacity and more than 50 channels available

MobiTV Sees Solid Growth

I gotta admit, I have not been a big fan of Mobile Television, at least not on a subscription basis. Considering the cost of data plan are not coming down. When this news came out, I was rather surprised. MobiTV is now operating for 4 million subscribers, impressive!

Is Mobile TV Really Necessary?

Mobile TV is all the rage these days. As telecoms try to increase their profit margins using add-on packages such as unlimited email, IM, text, internet, VOIP, and etc. Mobile TV is going to be an interesting addition to a carrier’s bottom line.

But as a consumer, do I really need a packaged “mobile TV “ solution? I mean, having live television programming available to me is of great value, but I am not interested in paying more to get that content which can be made available through existing medium. Considering that I am already paying for a monthly unlimited data plan which I’d argue that I hardly get my money’s worth out of it simply because the lack of efforts from the mobile community to make content accessible. And now, AT&T and Verizon(VCast) are committed to the new MediaFlo technology to broadcast high quality television feeds for another cost.

I am tired of buying into these one-off technologies (DVB-H, MediaFlow and T-DMB). I am interested in leverging existing infrastructure and make contents available using an open-source standard. I am interested in browsers such as Skyfire which is full internet capable giving me access to websites like Hulu.com so I can stream TV shows live with an ad supported model. I am interested in running YouTube app (ie. via iPhone or other YouTube Applications) to stream content over my existing 3G data network. Finally, I am interested in developing more functional mobile applications like fring for VOIP and GMAPS that maximizes the technology we have today!

Please don’t get me wrong, I am not against investing in new mobile technologies. I think these new mobile TV solutions are significant to the mobile development. I just wish telecoms and manufacturers would invest more time in perfecting the user experience based on what is available today instead of rushing on to something new and unproven just to charge me more money. Case in point, take a look at the following 3G network maps and see the regions without data coverage. Why not work on a technology to extend coverage area, boost our 3G speed and make sure all of your customers are upgraded to 3G handsets which allows for accessibility. Once the foundations are covered, then, lets talk about a new commitment in technology, hence making more money.

Sony Ericsson experts speak on music, gaming & Mobile TV in January 2008

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