Hi Pat, I still advise caution on that interpretation of the market. My own interpretation of mobile companies offering video services is that they are selling their own content from their own portals. That's how it is in the UK, anyway - most video consumed on phones is P*rn/Soft P*rn & Sport & Comedy clips sold through the provider's channels. Access to third party podcasting is not highlighted, nor is it very easy and it's only sought out by the truly dedicated. And since nobody even on this list of early adopters has ever said they do it, except as an experiment (Steve G), I stand by my thoughts. As for embedding watchable video on a web page for viewing on a mobile device... you can see how the magnificent http://wreckandsalvage.com do it - I wonder if they have many mobile views.
Btw, you saw this thread as encouraging - it isn't. It isn't about David trying to appeal to cell phone video viewers, it's about him trying to send video shot on his phone to his blog for viewing regularly on the web or via RSS. I watch videos on my iPod occasionally on the London underground. I am the only person I've ever seen doing that, even given the massive sales of video ipods - they launched 2 years ago this week. And I've never seen or heard of anybody watching video on their mobile phone. And a good number of people I know have video enabled phones, now, because the call packages are cheap. Cheers, Rupert On 23 Oct 2007, at 03:06, Patrick Cook wrote: >I think that with Sprint & Verizon already offering video services, >it's quite obvious that there's a market for people who'll watch video >on their phone. >...not to hijack the thread here, but it appears as though I'm not >the only one interested in trying to appeal to cell phone video >viewers. But in case I'm not successful, it won't be for lack of >trying. :D >> And I'm someone who's very >> into watching web video. So is it worth the effort? I guess you >> won't know until you try. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
