MobiTV Review
Sunday, 04 November 2007
mobi tv for pocket pcEver wished you could carry the television along with you? Well, MobiTV lets you do that with your Pocket PC! MobiTV for Windows Mobile phone is now on the stores at last, but does it live up to your expectations? Read on to find out!

User Interface:

There's no big deal here. The PDA version comes with a channel guide, full screen mode, a mini guide which you can access while viewing a channel play. The navigation system seems fair enough.

Do you really need it?

MobiTV is not the exclusive software for watching TV on your Pocket PC and it takes a backseat especially when compared with other free solutions such as Orb which offers wireless streaming at no extra cost. SlingBox also offers one time flat fee model for either hardware or software for the Windows Mobile powered devices. MobiTV has the only advantage of not requiring and running hardware from home to supply the video.

How good is the quality?

Since, this does not have a satellite driven reception, it is dependent on the signal to get the perfect images. So no proper EV-DO signal means that the clarity of your pictures will get affected. To add to its woes, MobiTV is the sole service provider as many channel providers shunt it either because they don’t want to enter an already competitive market or an experiment. Moreover, the television channels are tied up with contracts to advertising agencies which fails to include Mobile TV casting and that explains the limited access to select channels. MobiTV is working on this area and plans to have a balanced mix of cable and internet TV channels to cater our needs.

What's not good?

Noticed a few glitches in the mini guide while scrolling. More often than, scrolling takes at least three to four attempts to get to the channel you desire. The full screen mode also faced some problems and exited when volume change was tried. Not only the volume but changing channels also prompts the full screen to exit. Pretty annoying huh? And while in full screen mode, there's also a delay of at-least 10-15 seconds as the MobiTV re-buffers to perform any action.

Wi-Fi Woes - A major setback is that MobiTV doesn’t work on Wi-Fi, at-least on some Windows Mobile devices.

No VGA Support :(

Overall picture:
The bottom line is that MobiTV works, it certainly impressed us. Part of what makes the less-than-ultimate performance acceptable is the choice of content. You can still enjoy news, music video, sports, and to some degree even cartoons at less than 15 fps. At a little expensive price though!

Cost:
A price of $10 is good. But thats for every month and that makes me get back to Orb.


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