Phone-o-vison
By Shay • Apr 3rd, 2006 • Category: Japan, More, TV, Technology 
April 1st marked the scheduled beginning of cellphone TV broadcasting in Japan. The digital television service is known as One Seg(u). The One Seg(u) service is free to those with compatible cellphones. At this point, 12 digital TV stations will be offered.
Cellphone companies such as Vodafone and NTT Docomo are offering TV-supporting cellphones.
It will be interesting to see where this television cellphone thing will take us. Chances are it will take a while to spread outside of Japan, but while it’s in Japan, we’ll see how it goes. Oh yes though, TV broadcasted on cellphones, just another distraction for pretty much everyone.
This may be old news, but it’s now a current event.
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It’s about damn time! The Koreans have been on this kick for ages! I mean, if I can’t watch crappy Dorama while I’m browing this and that in Akiba, what good is living?!?!
Now I just need a few thousand yen for the phones to make my plan complete!
Watching crappy Dorama is the whole purpose of the Japanese TV cellphone for sure! Hopefully we can watch comedy variety shows too! Yes, that’s a bit better. I can only dream of what watching Hard Gay on my cell phone would be like. I’ve already got him as my wallpaper and ringtone (that’s not true, it should be though ;) ).
Shay,
That is the most awful thing I have ever read.
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