Rogers Mobile TV

Rogers is the first Canadian provider to launch Mobile TV (Mobile Phones Television). And I have a chance to play with the pre-released test version on my demo line with a Nokia 6620. Here is my review. This review has also been posted in a different forum. Enjoy...

I've been playing with it after work until now, here are my comment on it with some screenshots.

While downloading the app on my 6620, I saw that there's only a few models of version that are available at the moment; V220, V180, and 6620.

Since it's pre-released application so I guess the actual release product should be better although it's already good.

Here is the ICON of Mobile TV

Connecting to Mobile TV, since 6620 have EDGE, so it's pretty fast for the connection, it took me less than 3 seconds get it connected to the channel.

Connection done to Discovery Channel, as you can you see, it's pretty blurry as for Video quality.

Changing the channel, right now, there's 6 channels. You can either press the number for the channel you want or press up and down to select channels.

01- Blue Jays

02- Discovery

03- TLC

04- Discovery Kids

05- Comedy Time

06- Fashion TV

Some more screenshots...

I tried to Log-on to Blue Jays Channel to watch their game... too bad.. their channel is Temporarily Unavailable. What a shame...

Picture/Video Quality

Like I've mentioned previously, it is blurry, but it is still nice for a phone, remember my phone is 65k, I'm already amazed with it.

Sound

The sound isn't that bad, I mean, the talking match with the mouth's moving. Sometimes it has a slight delay, but it will automatically stop for one second (for buffering) and it will correct it.

Overall

It's definately not better than your home own TV, (duh..) But I'm seriously pleased with it. Just like last night, I was at a dinner with my family, ah man.. I was very bored. I wished I had Mobile TV yesterday. It will be good to have more channels such as NBAtv (I love it!), the News Channel (like CNN) and maybe the movie network. Ah well just let's hope it will happen.

So it's good to burn your time, but it will also easy to burn your DATA usage, even though it has different DATA package for Mobile TV, I can tell, it's not an inexpensive features.

I haven't tried with my V600 as I guess the version for V200/V180 won't be compatible with it.

It's pre-released version, so I can't give out the URL so please do not PM or ask me to give you the URL.