Fox Starts TV Production For Cell Phones

prostoalex writes "Broadcasting television to the cell phones, which few people were actually interested in, is becoming a reality pretty fast, as Fox started making mopisodes (one-minute episodes targeted specifically for the mobile phone screen) to be broadcast on Vodafone and Verizon networks. The Fox announcement timed perfectly with Vodafone launching a broad variety of 3G services in Europe."

Oh boy!

[Anonymous Coward]

Star Wars Narrow Screen Edition.

WTF

[Anonymous Coward]

What an insanely stupid idea. One minute TV episodes for the cell phone. Can someone please point me to the place where they give jobs like this out, to come up with incredibly stupid ideas like this?

Instead of spending the money on this, FOX might as well have just spent the money on sexual harassment training.

Re:Oh boy!

[whiteranger99x]

Wow! That Death Star sure blew up that dust speck Alderaan really bad! :P

Mobile hazard

[Lancaibheal]

Great.

Now I have to watch out for morons watching TV on their mobile phones while they drive their souped-up 4WDs in rush hour traffic.

Thanks, Fox!

One minute episodes?

[wrinkledshirt]

Well, at least they're making disinformation more efficient.

[ducks and covers]

1 minute episodes based on 24?

[arbi]

They could call it 1440

What New Hell is This?

[rueger]

Oh great now I can enjoy idiots on cel phones [amiright.com] "sharing" fine Fox programming [t-online.de] while I'm trying to enjoy my dinner in a restaurant.

As if their pointless yattering conversations weren't enough....

Hooray mobisodes!

[mg2]

And if they run the stream at 1800fps, you can watch an entire episode of of the OC in that one wonderful minute.

Great

[Ambient_Developer]

So now fox can run up my cell phone bandwidth bill, excellent!

Aye Carumba

[FerretFrottage]

3G is not toon porn
3G is not toon porn
3G is not toon porn

Re:Oh boy!

[JurgenThor]

And you will barely be able to tell who shoots first!

Re:1minute episodes ? commericals

[cyfer2000]

maybe fox just made a big investment in battery industry.

One minute equals...

[DoktorSeven]

45 seconds of commercials, 5 seconds of the FOX logo ("You're watching FOX Fone!"), and 10 seconds of actual content.

I'll pass, thanks.

So now...

[Phidoux]

... I can talk and watch at the same time. I always knew that having an eye in my ear would come in handy one day.

Re:WTF

[corian]

Live in a country where your daily commute is an hour-and-a-half train ride one way, and perhaps you'll begin to see the justification.

A one-minute TV program isn't going to take that much of a bite out of your one-and-a-half hour comute, though...

Re:I love Apple, but Fuck the South

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks like the whole country is red... not just the "south"

Re:WTF

[Amiga Lover]

Can someone please point me to the place where they give jobs like this out, to come up with incredibly stupid ideas like this?

The idea was pretty obvious after looking at the attention span of most cellphone users.

Fox Ringtone

[wayward]

Hey, if I got a polyphonic cell phone, do you suppose I could get a ringtone with Bill O'Reilly talking about his sexual fantasies?

Re:WTF

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