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iPhone apps that stream video began showing up in the App Store more than a year ago, but aside from a few live sports apps (like the awesome MLB.com), the quality of general-interest video streaming apps for the iPhone hasn’t been great.

More people own smartphones and other advanced mobile devices (such as e-book readers and tablet PCs), and they want to watch video on those devices. Wireless networks are getting faster and more reliable, and the launch of Apple’s iPad certainly added to the excitement around watching videos in the kitchen or on the bus or wherever.

Announced at CTIA in March, the service will run as a $10-a-month app on iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry phones, and will be available from all major U.S. wireless networks.FLO TV uses its own wireless network (not a 3G network) with its own wireless spectrum to distribute video.

There’s no FLO TV chip in the iPhone, but FLO TV is working with an accessories company called Mophie to put the chip in a sleeve (called the Juice Pack TV) for the iPhone and the iPod Touch that will catch the signal for the device.

But to get a decent selection of video, you’ll have to buy one of MobiTV’s one-, three-, or six-month packages (priced at $10, $25, and $45, respectively), which feature 8 channels of live TV and more than 30 channels of on-demand content. As Android continues to gain steam, you can expect to see a similar MobiTV app in the Android Market.

You can find MobiTV on phones from AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, and several smaller, regional networks such as Alltel. In some cases, MobiTV is branded something else, like “Sprint TV”; in others, the service shows up on the phone under the MobiTV brand. streaming video app for the iPad, and the app has been very popular; but the company is reticent about releasing an app that puts its Watch Instantly service on the iPhone–or on any other phone.

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Furthermore, the picture attainable on mobile satellite systems tends to break up in urban environments.Like broadcasts from regular television stations, Mobile DTV channel broadcasts have a limited range of Dell inspiron 1721 battery . In the case of the New York test station (WPXN), I could receive a signal only within a radius of about 10 miles from the broadcast tower.

When Mobile DTV stations go live, however, reception supposedly will be possible even at distances of 20 to 40 miles. This is welcome news for travelers who find themselves delayed in airport lounges to Dell inspiron 1525 battery , though passengers whiling away time on long car trips will still have to change channels repeatedly.

Mobile DTV’s main rival is the Qualcomm-backed Flo TV service. Flo TV is available on several smartphones (the $200 LG Arena, for example) and on the $250 Flo TV Personal Tele-vision. But the service costs $10 to $14 per month (de–pending on the device and the carrier), it delivers fewer than 20 nationwide channels, and the channels are available only in metropolitan areas.

That’s because Flo TV relies on its own network of transmission towers to broadcast programming in some of the space that was left vacant when television stations switched from analog to digital Dell FK890 . Consequently, even though Flo TV programming is nationwide, the network itself is not. In the hinterland, you’ll lose the signal.

Eventually, we may see devices that support both Mobile DTV and Flo TV. Both LG and Samsung have demonstrated cell phones with Mobile DTV, and both offer handsets than can re–ceive Flo TV. Much depends on what cell phone carriers like AT&T and Verizon de–cide to do Dell RN873 battery , since they control which handsets work on their networks.

Currently, both companies charge a substantial fee for cellular-network-based video, and free Mobile DTV could cut into their revenue from that source of Dell inspiron 1720 battery . Meanwhile, some Mobile DTV broadcasters are looking at the possibility of offering additional for-pay channels that could induce wireless carriers to add Mo–bile DTV to their handsets.

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