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Livestation iPhone app promises live TV over wifi
Even the Livestation rep says it's still in development right now, and he won't give a date other than "soon." I have no doubt that we'll soon see streaming TV on the iPhone -- with the growing popularity of sites like Hulu and Netflix's own streaming video service, and a similar promise of streaming shows from i.TV, it definitely seems like that's where media is headed, even portable media. But this isn't something to hold your breath for quite yet -- I'm happy with Weatherbug's already-working video weather reports.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
StPaddy said 10:53AM on 12-04-2008
I've got live TV on my iPhone using Orb. Sure I have to leave my computer on at home, but it's LIVE TV, over Edge, 3G or WiFi!
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Swell said 11:01AM on 12-04-2008
I was just about to say that. It works pretty dang good too.
musyne said 11:11AM on 12-04-2008
Using mplayer on a jailbroken iPhone works too to stream cnn live or mostly any channels that provide something to stream (eg. .asx).
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mare said 11:17AM on 12-04-2008
I don't know about the US but here in Canada cell phones had live TV a couple of years ago, through your cell phone provider. I believe it was an utter failre. Nobody wanted it, since it cost money and the screens of cell phones are way too small.
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will said 12:05PM on 12-04-2008
You can watch bbc news over wifi for free in the UK already. Did they just take a screenshot of that?
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Jez said 1:16PM on 12-04-2008
Is this live from the iplayer only wifi though?
Tony said 1:15PM on 12-04-2008
Good point. That doesn't even need an app - you can view it using safari.
Of course in the UK phones have had live TV over 3G for years - Sky pipe a few of their satellite channels over 3G, the BBC pipe their feeds over it... all it needs is for the provider to allow it and for the phone to support it (this is where it falls down on the iphone of course).
The interesting thing is for all this availability hardly anybody actually uses it, or even probably realizes their phone can do it.
Tony said 1:15PM on 12-04-2008
Good point. That doesn't even need an app - you can view it using safari.
Of course in the UK phones have had live TV over 3G for years - Sky pipe a few of their satellite channels over 3G, the BBC pipe their feeds over it... all it needs is for the provider to allow it and for the phone to support it (this is where it falls down on the iphone of course).
The interesting thing is for all this availability hardly anybody actually uses it, or even probably realizes their phone can do it.
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Tony said 1:16PM on 12-04-2008
Testing.. is this working?
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sodapop said 3:40PM on 12-04-2008
OK - With this and Boxee - WHERER THE HELL IS THE SLINGBOX APP?
I swear, for a grand idea, Slingmedia is second only to Microsoft in delivering new apps.
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