Texas Instruments is showing off its Personal Video Recorder (PVR) tech for mobile phones this week at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam. The tech utilizes TI’s Hollywood(TM) digital TV chip and OMAP 2 multimedia processor, along with software from partners PacketVideo and Software Systems (S3).
The system will allow “people to record a TV program on their mobile phone and then watch it later, on the train on the way to work, for example. The TI package also provides “picture-in-picture” capabilities, allowing a person to watch a prerecorded program and also track a live sports event in a smaller, on-screen window.”
Do we need this? Do we want this? I know I sound like a crotchety old d00d, always complaining about the crappy mobile reception I get, but seriously, I get REALLY crappy reception, in a major market! I rarely make it through a call without it getting dropped, or with me trying to figure out where the nearest tower is so I can point my phone at it to get decent signal strength. I don’t need freakin’ TV on my mobile phone, I need a mobile phone on my freakin’ mobile phone! And I’ve had it with these mother****in’ snakes on this… Oh, nevermind…
Read the full piece at PC World.