Telly Provides Mobile Television to iPhone

Wow thats awsome

I can see them create an app from the SDK to really create a great product.

that is genius! great concept! It took me a second to figure out even after I saw it working. I couldn't figure out what the little white box was for. Makes perfect sense though.

I'll be more excited when the SlingPlayer app comes around.

Meh, I am not impressed.

If the iPhone/iPod is in a WiFi hotspot why not just use EyeTV? Leave your Mac on at home and run EyeTV's integrated server software.

Presto! Unlimited TV content streamed directly to you iPhone!

Why would you ever watch TV on your phone when you are within wifi range of your much larger TV?

Their website mentions "TDtv, DVB-H and MediaFLO" as the TV formats it supports.

No mention of ATSC. (The new US standard broadcast TV format. Or, for that matter, NTSC; but that's going to go away in less than a year, so that's not a loss.)

All three are mobile-phone standards for video, and as such, would require a subscription. This is not an end-user purchase device for watching TV on the go, it's a mobile phone operator sold device for adding live video to phones that otherwise support it in their lineup. (As a compliment to phones that natively support one of the three formats.)

AT&T Mobility has thrown its hat in with "MediaFLO", marketing it as "AT&T Mobile TV", and charges $15 a month for access to 10 channels. Right now, they offer it on two devices. One of them is an LG that looks a lot like an iPhone.

P.S. It would appear that this device itself acts as a WiFi hotspot. It would be rather useless if you had to be within range of an existing WiFi hotspot. (And since, by definition, it has to be connected to a 3G mobile network, maybe it would bring 3G data to older mobiles, too.)

I'll be more excited when the SlingPlayer app comes around.

This is the only reason that a lot of my friends are holding out before they get an iphone.

Wow, that looks pretty good! I might get that.

Their website mentions "TDtv, DVB-H and MediaFLO" as the TV formats it supports.

No mention of ATSC. (The new US standard broadcast TV format. Or, for that matter, NTSC; but that's going to go away in less than a year, so that's not a loss.)

I'm not doubting you on that as you sound very knowledgeable about said technologies and I have frankly never even heard of them, however, I can testify that the video they watch is from WLS-TV, the Chicago ABC affiliate and that that newscast was in HD, hence the widescreen. I live in Chicago and know both that newsdesk and those anchors, so either they will be supporting OTA ATSC or that video was pre-encoded and only streamed to the iPhone. Also, the iPhone appears to say AT&T, again indicating that this test was done in the US, thus ATSC and not DVB-T.

Still, I would love to see this device even though I have an EyeTV, I don't like some of the options they haven't enabled for me.

-Brian