Mobile  Videos

According to market researchers, videos are going to be next rage, like games people are going to be hooked on it. It is also going to be very profitable for mobile companies and will give another option to enhance handsets becoz with videos consumer want better picture n sound quality.

Lots of Tv channels and Production companies are showing interest in making sort videos. The mobile videos include music, and come in 3gp format. Mobile Videos can be sent to a friend using the MMS feature. Mobile video comes in several forms.

Types of Mobile Video

Mobishows

A Mobishow is a term to describe a broadcast quality programmer / series which has been produced, directed, edited and encoded for the mobile phone.

Mobishows can range from short video clips such as betting advice or the latest celebrity gossip, through to half hour drama serials. Examples include The Ashes and Mr. Paparazzi Show which both were created for mobile viewing.

Streaming TV

Mobile video also comes in the form of streaming TV over the mobile network, which must be a 2.5G or 3G network. This mimics a television station in that the user cannot elect to see what they wish but must watch whatever is on the channel at the time.

There is also mobile broadcast TV, which operates like a traditional television station and broadcasts the content over a different spectrum. This frees up the mobile network to handle calls and other data usage, and because of the "one-to-many" nature of mobile broadcast TV the video quality is a lot better than that streamed over the mobile networks, which is a "one-to-one" system.

The problem is that broadcast technologies don't have a natural uplink, so for users to interact with the TV stream the service has to be closely integrated to the carriers mobile network. The main technologies for broadcast TV are DVB-H, DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) and Media FLO.

Bluetooth

Modern phones come with Bluetooth. This allows video to be sent from phone to phone over Bluetooth, which has the advantages that there is no data charge.