According to WirelessWatch, mobile carriers in Japan have been using “One Seg” — for more than a year now — to deliver televised content over their networks. Video segment after the break.

The new digital tuner-enabled handsets, coming from Panasonic, Hitachi and Sanyo, should deliver up to three hours of TV viewing time by processing and decoding only the requested channel — as opposed to current analog units which run only about an hour and eat more juice as they decode all incoming broadcast channels

[via WirelessWatch]

According to WirelessWatch, mobile carriers in Japan have been using “One Seg” — for more than a year now — to deliver televised content over their networks. Video segment after the break.

The new digital tuner-enabled handsets, coming from Panasonic, Hitachi and Sanyo, should deliver up to three hours of TV viewing time by processing and decoding only the requested channel — as opposed to current analog units which run only about an hour and eat more juice as they decode all incoming broadcast channels

[via WirelessWatch]

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