TV on mobile phones faces a lot of hurdles, including regulatory ones. This article goes through the issue, and points out that having different technical standards in different countries is not as big a problem as it might appear considering noone’s bothered to get a unified standard for analogue TV.
“The trump card for critics of mobile TV is usually to point to the 2-inch phone screen and say, “No one will watch TV on a screen that small.” What they really mean is, “I won’t watch TV on a screen that small.”
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