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To: Return to Sender who wrote (13742)	3/5/2004 8:31:40 AM
From: The Ox	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 95646

Approaching the next "killer app": <SNIP>...But that ain't all. The advent of DVB-H, which makes handheld video possible because of quantum reductions in battery drain on the typical mobile phone, can bring a host of “infotainment” options to the screen of a mobile phone or one of the new standalone portable video devices now being developed by consumer electronics manufacturers. Among the features soon available to the ambulatory phone hedonist, according to Claus Sattler, project leader of the BMCO initiative in Berlin, will be comedy, e-papers, EBay-type auctions, museum and travel guides, business TV, games, music clips, events guides, sports, shopping, news services, e-learning, media-on-demand and interactive options, too. All this will come at a price, which is vital to industries that have seen both television and mobile telephony sink to commodity status, with prices for both devices and services so low that profits are minimal. One of the keys of all the pilot projects, noted the TDF Group's Bernard Pauchon, is to “assess the capability of end-users paying an access fee for services...to increase the revenue of mobile operators.” This doesn't just go for mobile operators. The newest “goose that laid the golden egg” for equipment makers and broadcasters, also, is the arrival of television in a long-life, lightweight, handheld form — with users paying for the privilege. As noted by Pauchon, “TV in your pocket should be the killer app.” <SNIP> eet.com