Mobile TV Hot in Japan
Japan's 90 million cellphone users already play video games, download songs, exchange messages, read news, trade stocks, store digital photos, and surf the Web on their tiny screens.
Now, they're doing something less tech-savvy and more mundane: watching TV.
Free digital TV broadcasts for portable devices equipped with special receivers began in Japan's major urban areas last week, although for now, people can watch only the same programs shown on regular TVs in living rooms.
Japan's mobile TV technology shows promise for linkups with entertainment downloads and other new services in a country already used to relying on mobile phones.
The new gadgets use an adaptation of digital broadcasts -- the same ones that can be picked up by specially equipped digital TV sets -- rather than an Internet connection.
Now, they're doing something less tech-savvy and more mundane: watching TV.
Free digital TV broadcasts for portable devices equipped with special receivers began in Japan's major urban areas last week, although for now, people can watch only the same programs shown on regular TVs in living rooms.
Japan's mobile TV technology shows promise for linkups with entertainment downloads and other new services in a country already used to relying on mobile phones.
The new gadgets use an adaptation of digital broadcasts -- the same ones that can be picked up by specially equipped digital TV sets -- rather than an Internet connection.
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