Tom,
You know, I have to disagree with you that the video clips sent between
users are less useful than ezmovie clips. The video download/upload feature
on the new A5301T is exactly the kind of extension of communications in
general and of camera phone functionality in particular that the consumer
truly wants and that leads to much greater organic usage, and hence, more
profit potential for KDDI.
Ezmovie, in its current form, is severely limited, and in absolute terms if
far too expensive versus its relative benefit to the public and KDDI. This
is likely the reason that the ezmovie functionality has not been emphasized
in KDDI's current line of handsets.
In terms of actual movies that people can watch on handsets, I would look
towards KDDI's implementation of EVDO next year, where the bandwidth will
greatly reduce the consumer pricing for mobile video, making it financially
possible to develop more worthwhile content than 15-sec blurbs.
Still, at the end of the day, short movies are, in my opinion, the best
extension of mobile communications functionality for the user, and besides,
with J-Phone already providing this service on 2.5G, it necessitated KDDI's
move into this area for competition's sake.
Mark
On 9/17/02 3:10 AM, "Tom Motoyoshi Kalland" <tmk@infeline.org> wrote:
>
> so you're saying that it won't play ezmovie streams (i.e. not video calls,
> but just streaming those video things kddi has had for awhile)? none of
> kddi/au's cdma2000 1x handsets play those at the moment? would be more
> useful than letting people send silly video clips of their dogs (as on
> kddi/au's page example) to eachother. :/
>
> Ken Chang wrote:
>>
>> (1)
>> only up to 15 sec video for messaging. there are QoS issues
>> and the packet charge will be too high for video calls.
>> au/KDDI doesn't have a 64 kb/s CSD link like FOMA.
>>
>> an example au/KDDI .amc video file looks like
>> model: A5301T
>> LCD size: (144, 176)
>> file name: matsuri.amc
>> file size: 56,789 bytes
>> time: 14.9 sec
>> video mode: 24 kb/s, size: (96, 80)
>> audio mode: QCELP 6.8 kb/s (mono)
>> telop: no
>> frame rate: 7.0 f/s
>>
>> at 7 f/s the .amc file size is about 1.3 times of .noa which
>> can hardly do 2 f/s, with a little bit higher resolution.
>> J-Phone made a wrong decission by choosing Nancy.
>>
>> (2)
>> no MP3, probably because the relatively shorter battery life of
>> cdma2000 handsets than the TDMA PDC.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Ken
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