Um.  Will someone tell me why they are pushing this sh.t instead of making
Vision what it should and could be?

Who in the hell makes decisions for this company????

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CELL_PHONE_TV?SITE=TXSAE&SECTION=
BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Sprint Adding TV Service for Cell Phones

By BRUCE MEYERSON
AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- Sprint Corp. is adding a television service for cell phones
with real-time programs, albeit somewhat choppy, from cable networks
including CNBC and ABC News.

The new MobiTV service, available starting Thursday, will cost $9.99 per
month in addition to the monthly fee of $15 that Sprint subscribers pay to
use the Internet data connection on their mobile phones. Other networks
featured on the service include MSNBC, Discovery Channel and The Learning
Channel.

Although the audio for MobiTV programs will play in a continuous stream, the
cell phone screen will not display the equivalent of full-motion video like
that seen on a real television. Instead, the video will play at a rate of
one or two frames per second, as compared with more than 20 frames per
second for real TV.

The programs on most of the MobiTV channels will be identical to the actual
programs playing at that hour on the corresponding cable channels, although
with a lag of perhaps a minute due to the time it takes to process and
transmit the content for a wireless device.

The announcement brings at least one cellular carrier a step closer to
transforming the over-hyped concept of next-generation wireless services to
reality.

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Multimedia services such as Web browsing, music and video have been held up
by limitations in the capabilities of both handsets and wireless networks.
But ongoing improvements in the phones and network technology are now
enabling richer content.

Still, both Sprint and MobiTV provider Idetic Inc. were careful to not to
set expectations for the new service too high.

"This isn't the kind of thing where you're going to watch a movie, but it is
the kind of thing where the frame rate is fine" for viewing a program such
as a newscast, said Paul Scanlan, a co-founder of Idetic. He also cautioned
that normal limitations of mobile phone use will still apply.

"It's still cell phone technology, so just like you may get disconnected on
a phone call, you could lose the program. If you don't have good reception
for a phone call, you're not going to be able to get good reception (for
MobiTV)."

While wireless technology is expected to improve enough to provide
full-motion streaming video as soon as next year, some handset makers are
also trying to bring video to cell phones without the cellular network:
Samsung is due to introduce a cell phone with a TV tuner inside that can
pick up local television channels over the broadcast airwaves.