Mobile Video Worldwide

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Mobile video has always been a sought after luxury. Think back to classic sit-comes where the nurse is sitting at the waiting room desk with a classic mobile television in hand; long antenna pointed upwards and a small screen attached to a clunky box filled with batteries. It feels like just yesterday when mobile televisions were released and became the latest craze.

Mobile Phones

Mobile video has always been a sought after luxury. Think back to classic sit-comes where the nurse is sitting at the waiting room desk with a classic mobile television in hand; long antenna pointed upwards and a small screen attached to a clunky box filled with batteries. It feels like just yesterday when mobile televisions were released and became the latest craze.

Since the conception of mobile televisions, the idea of portable video has come a long way. The first notable advancement was video on cellular phones. Video on cellular phones, was initially not very good and left a lot to be desired.

Limitations in the processing power lead to choppy video; furthermore limitations of slow cellular networks designed to transmit simple data such as text messages and nothing more lead to worse performance. Early video on mobile was limited to very few channels and a slow frame rate which looked more like a slide-show than a video.

Due to those limitations many users gave up on the idea of cellular video. It became almost globally accepted that video on cellular phones was not going to be a success and cellular networks stopped promoting the mobile video services.

That was, until, 3G mobile phones were released. Cellular companies quickly began to realize that cellular phones were for much more than just calls and consumers needed to be able to transfer data. 3G high-speed mobile services were launched and shortly after 3G mobile phones, which opened a new world for portable video.

Almost instantly mobile video phones became popular worldwide and thus began the revolution of mobile video worldwide.

3G mobile video phones posses the processing power and the network speed necessary to view video at high frame rate. The experience is pleasant and easily accessible anywhere that there is cellular service. With 3G Mobile phones there is not much more left to be desire; 3G mobile video is great!

Video for Mobile is developing at a rapid pace around the world and current research forecasts that the number of global mobile video subscriptions will grow to 534m in 2014. Mobile phone video is still emerging, but it is projected by the study to represent 66 percent of all mobile data traffic by 2014, increasing 66-fold from 2010 to 2015-the highest growth rate of any mobile data application tracked in the Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Forecast.

Mobile Phones

Mobile Videos are commonly associated with supplying video signals to cell phones. Mobile subscribers still carry phones that aren’t even capable of viewing video currently about 52%, that’s just a marginal improvement over two years ago 62%. Video for phones today still lacks the slickness it needs for more rapid growth. First, you will need a 3G phone and a data package with unlimited video downloads. It is very much a transformational technology that will require real changes or additions to the consumer media diet. It is not simply a feature add-on, but a core application service that requires extensive expertise for successful design and delivery and we still need more Mobile web support for Mobile device browsers that are optimized for this device. Mobile video is not mobile television, but rather a broadly defined product category of any sort of video delivered to mobile devices.

Video on Mobiles

Video on the web is showing up in more and more places all the time. Video playback was choppy and unpleasant at best. Video on the iPhone is not Flash video like it is on the real web but transferred using the Quicktime H. Video on the web ranges from low-quality YouTube videos to those glorious 1080p movie trailers on Apple. Video on our TVs is not limited by download speeds like video on the web is, so TV can be delivered at a high and consistent quality. Mobile Video is get much better and plays smoothly and buffers at a fast speed thanks to AT&T’s 3G and the phone’s fast processor. In addition to a 3G phone , you will need a Data Unlimited package to view and enjoy Mobile Videos.

Overall, I definitely think that the question of how to deal with Mobile Video is still at very early stages. With phone manufacturers getting even more generous with storage space, it is now very much a reality. See for yourself why Mobile Video Worldwide is indeed ready for Primetime. Mobile devices are here to stay, video is here to stay, and Mobile Video is here to stay.

Author: M Twang