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Over the Air TV and Movie Downloads via iPhone?

Monday May 25, 2009 3:39 am PDT by Arnold Kim
A blog entry claims that Apple is planning to start offering over the air downloads of Movies and TV shows via the iPhone. The source behind the rumor seems rather sketchy as the claim is that Apple accidentally started advertising this functionality via mobile banners.

A few screenshots, however, are included as evidence:

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Saladinos
36 months ago
Doesn't really make much sense.
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t0mat0
36 months ago

Doesn't really make much sense.


Would mean iPhone usres in downtime away from computers, but with a wifi signal (or strong 3G?) could get some entertainment, and throw some $ Apple's way.
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JDee
36 months ago
I don't know if I could see this work.

People usually watch TV at home, and there is really only Wi-Fi at home (I know there isn't, but people don't go into a Starbucks and start watching TV on a mobile phone while drinking coffee)

If it was over 3G, I would say that the connection quality would be really bad.
MO.
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Saladinos
36 months ago

Would mean iPhone usres in downtime away from computers, but with a wifi signal (or strong 3G?) could get some entertainment, and throw some $ Apple's way.


Even on 3G, things would take ages to download. If these were specially coded at iPhone resolution in h.264, a movie would be ~ 150MB.
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t0mat0
36 months ago

Even on 3G, things would take ages to download. If these were specially coded at iPhone resolution in h.264, a movie would be ~ 150MB.


Which would take probably less than than starting up the download over wifi, and making a getting a cup of tea, wouldn't it?
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kornyboy
36 months ago
It would be nice if you were in a hotel with wifi and had the TV hook up for the iPhone. It would be TV on demand where you pay Apple instead of the hotel. I'm fine with this sort of competition especially since some hotels have started to disable external inputs to their TVs.
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Bye Bye Baby
36 months ago
We can only hope
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Mykbibby
36 months ago
Why is this Page 2? It seems very real to me.
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Bevz
36 months ago
/* BEGIN RANT */

Yeah, and while they're at it... how about the ability to stream video from my AppleTV or my desktop to my iPhone?

Ok, i can do the desktop webserver trick and stream files via mobile safari, but this is a really ugly fudge...

Surely a nice app that shows me my iTunes content and lets me stream it to my iPhone isn't a lot to ask for is it? It certainly would appear so.... The Apple Remote app interface but with streaming, that's all i ask.... :(

I will only forgive them if they're holding out until they release an iTunes media server later this year... ;)

/* END OF RANT */
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svndmvn
36 months ago
would make more sense if the rumors about 7.2mbps and 802.11n are true. Could be a nightmare with current speeds though.
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