(keitai-l) Re: The 3G anti-hype

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> From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
> [mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]On Behalf Of Michael Turner
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 2:40 PM
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: The 3G anti-hype
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> From: "christopher lowery" <chris@onegoodwindow.com>
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> > OK, but what's so bad about streaming video? The only reason people
> > won't use the phone for everything they do on a desktop *and more*
> > is if it's a great pain in the ass or too expensive.
>
> I have a television I bought here in Japan with a screen
> that's about 1.5" x 1.5".  I watched it for about half an
> hour, and never once since.  Maybe that screensize
> falls under "great pain in the ass" but for me, it was just,
> like, "why not just listen to the radio?"

I basically agree with your attitude towards 3G ("show me the money"),
however, do think 3G or no 3G streaming video (and other rich media), though
limited on keitai, will find applications and customers.

The success of streaming video will largely depend on cost, IMO, as
Christopher says. Granted MPEG-4 is on the order of 10x better than MPEG-2
and limited screen size will help further, still going to suck a lot of
bandwidth.  Anyone have any ballpark figures on likely pricing of 3G
bandwidth?

JS


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