Visual Radio Coming to India 118
morpheus83 writes "India continues to march towards becoming an IT and economic super power. The Indian capital of New-Delhi will become the the third city in the world to have a commercial Visual Radio service after Singapore and Helsinki (Finland). The technology developed by Nokia allows audiences to interact with the radio programs. The audio is received via a regular analog FM radio whereas graphics and text are streamed over a data connection. It will be available to Hutch and Airtel subscribers who have compatible Nokia handsets."
huh? (Score:5, Interesting)
Somehow i dont think the creation of visual radio (i thought it was called TV) will lead you to become a super power.
Since the article has ZERO inso on what visual radio is here is a nokia link [visualradio.com]. To summarize, think proprietary TV with minimal interactivity from the creators of Ngage. You tune into a station and see a "web page" where you get more info and can provide feed back.
Sounds like real superpower material to me.
Sounds like G4's Trek 2.0 (Score:2, Interesting)
Some radio-talk-show hosts have been doing something like this for years:
They have additional content, blogs, instant-messaging, incoming faxes, pager alerts, and other features that happen in sync with their talk show. "Today we are talking about the President's actions in Iraq. One of our viewers send me this video, we put it up on our web site. In 15 minutes I'll pick the best comments and air them right here. Remember, you can watch the antics in our broadcast booth live at http://www.narcissistictalkshowhosts.com/webcam/.
Visual Radio = dead consept (Score:2, Interesting)
I live in Helsinki. Visual Radio has been available here about one year.
There is only one radio channel that provides the service and not many Nokia cells that supports it.
And yes, just like N-Gage, nobody actually use it. Even Nokia has started to move towards podcasting.
Nice copy and paste job (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Visual Radio??? (Score:3, Interesting)
So, in other words, it is television? Or is the marketing drivel on television somehow different from the marketing drivel on radio?
How's this different from Digital Radio Mondiale? (Score:2, Interesting)
TFA is very light on data, so it's hard to say what exactly "interactive" means? Does it just send URLs, or is it a real two-way medium? The Nokia logo on the device is a hint this may just be a layer over a cellular network.
DRM can send data or audio. The data might be video, a transcript of the story, or any other "text". That means it could include URLs, and meet some definitions of "interactive" (using the ISP of your choice).