Japanese iPhone 3G customers will get a treat: a little gadget that receives the 1-Seg mobile terrestrial digital audio/video and data broadcasting service and sends it out in WiFi signals. That’s not all, the 1-Sef tuner also acts as a battery charger if needed. It is said that the 1-Seg tuner can last for 3 hours of TV viewing, 2 to 4 hours in charge mode. If you wonder, the iPhone app is free.
It’s very very nice. Mobile TV is quite popular in South Korea as well. And, the 80-gram tuner provides a TV fix over WiFi and doubles as a battery extender when plugged into the iPhone 3G’s dock connector. Â In addition, “TV & battery” charge, included with the product of “USB-miniB USB” cable used 2, AC power or a PC’s USB port and can be connected. Â 1-Seg broadcasts use H.264 video with AAC+SBR audio encapsulated in a MPEG2 Transport Stream at a bit-rate of 416kbps. The iPhone is more than capable of decoding and displaying H.264 video and AAC audio and its WiFi will easily eat up 416kbps. 1-Seg video has a pixel format of just 320 x 240.
April 11th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
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