John,
I think you might have your wires crossed on TU-Media. It's a Korean
service on the same platform as Japan's MBCO that sends TV channels to cell
phones via satellite. I just looked at the site (www.tu4u.com) and I can't
see a viewer generated channel but I'm not a Korean expert so....
In Japan I've seen some news reports using 3G video phones. They are even
good enough to brand the pictures "Foma Live," which presumably means
DoCoMo is giving them the usage free. I guess it's a good advertisment if
the blotching pictures appeal to you. Sorry, I haven't seen shows where
people send in clips but I don't watch much TV. I bet there are some.
Martyn
keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net wrote on 05/25/2006 18:08:15:
> I wonder if anyone could point me towards examples of real cameraphone
> interaction with TV programming in Japan/Korea or elsewhere.
> Tomi Ahonen has already indicated the following examples:
> o In Japan a show called "Syamekke" and the Norwegian NRK TV
channel
> which invited viewers to send in their video-clips shot on mobile phones,
> broadcast on the specialized TV shows.
>
> o Tu-Media Korea, the first full-time 24 hour TV channel that
> broadcasts NOTHING but video-clips by viewers.
Received on Thu May 25 13:16:54 2006