It’s about time that AT&T catches up with Verizon and Sprint in the mobile TV race. They finally started making sense to me when they proposed a mobile TV service yesterday. Right now, I am not worried at all if the 3G network from AT&T can’t handle it. It can already handle live video, so why couldn’t it handle regular TV? I just hope they gain a competetive edge in this market by lowering the prices. They are already beat by Verizon in the most widespread network in the U.S. Maybe they could go ahead of Verizon in at least one more area. And what better area other than multimedia content?

Right now, it doesn’t look that many phones have mobile TV support, let alone 3G capabilities. I am worried about you AT&T. Verizon has most, if not all of their phones equipped with EV-DO. If you don’t step up your game in the phone department, you might lose your game to Verizon. I don’t know if I have mentioned it already, but I hate Verizon even though it offers one of the most comprehensive cell phone service in terms of wide-spread internet access and cell phone service coverage. Their high prices is what makes me want to scream. This is very believable considering I am from the poor man’s cell phone service, T-Mobile.

All in all, I am rooting for you, AT&T! Probably only because I don’t want for them to fall into the hands of Verizon. Other than that, I pretty much hate AT&T’s guts (No offense to all you AT&T fans )

It’s about time something like this happens. Apple looks like they are taking their product, Apple TV, to the next level by adding DVR-like capabilities. It was only a matter of time they incorporated this into their Apple TV. According to the article, it also looks like they are incorporating TV Guides into an iPod-like navigation interface (Who knows what they can come up with?). Way to go Apple! They are definitely heading in the right direction with this. I mean, who has ever wanted to see what to record on their commute to work. Totally me! People definitely have advantages in doing things like this.

Looking at the article, it looks like their custom program guides could add more to the basket of goodies. All in all, I really have high hopes for this product. I just hope they won’t mess it up with advertisements or something like that. You haven’t let us down yet Apple. Don’t make this the first!

VIA AppleInsider
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Hulu, launched March 12th, is an on-demand website offering a plethora of full length TV shows and movies with reasonable quality and speedy. They had begun closed beta testing invited by invitation in October of 2007. Because it is a free service, they do insert commercials. The commercials are usually 10 seconds in length and are bearable compared to what we normally watch on TV. From a glance, it looks like a website with plenty of potential and an eye-catching front page. It does have a reasonable show database, but not a lot of things interested me in particular. For the movies database, it had even less that caught my eye. But since this is a free service, I can deal with the limited database, which hopefully will expand within the next few months. This is just another option for watching TV and movies, along with buying or building your own DVR, catching shows by the broadcaster’s website, or just plain Bittorrent.

Here is a quote from YouTube’s website:

You may have noticed that we’re now giving you the option of watching some YouTube videos in higher quality. We’re making these streams available on certain videos, based upon the source file uploaded to us, and over time you’ll find a greater percentage of the library is available to view in higher quality. This feature applies to all eligible videos uploaded from the YouTube community, and is not restricted to partner content, so everyone can enjoy this upgrade.

At last, YouTube has opened their eyes to the world of High Def! But there comes some issues, along with this superb announcement. The upload speeds will triple, maybe even quadruple, with the video files increasing in size. But in return for this painstaking wait, you can get videos that you can actually enjoy on your high def television B) . But not only does this increased video file size affects upload speeds, it affects download speeds as well. So much for 1-2 second video starts . But I figure you have to give some to get more.