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."
uh... (Score:5, Funny)
Don't they normaly call that TV?
TV HAS MOVING PICTURES, THIS DOESN'T (Score:2)
Re:uh... (Score:5, Informative)
It's also interactive, while TV is just streaming.
Hint, hint: RTFA
Re:uh... (Score:1)
Alright, how about "WebTV" then?
Re:uh... (Score:1)
wow (Score:5, Funny)
just a guess , but... (Score:2)
Visual Radio??? (Score:2, Informative)
Otherwise it's just MTV without the 'V'.
Re:Visual Radio??? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Visual Radio??? (Score:2)
Re:Visual Radio??? (Score:1)
Television + Marketing Drivel = "Visual Radio"
Hope that clears it up for you.
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?
Re:Visual Radio??? (Score:1)
Explanation (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Explanation (Score:2)
Obligatory Rocky Horror Quote (Score:2)
"TV for Helen Keller!"
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.
Re:huh? (Score:2)
I was just thinking that... Japan is the gadget superpower of the world and they don't have this. California is an IT superpower, and they don't have this. The US, Japan, Germany, Great Britain - those are actual economic superpowers, and they don't have this. How is this in any way connected with being an IT or economic superpower? It's a stupid proprietary way to sell stuff.
Re:huh? (Score:2)
What?! Are you telling me that Finland won't become a superpower with this?!
Re:huh? (Score:1)
2.
3. Superpower!!!
Re:huh? (Score:1)
> 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.
It's odd. I can get that with my Nokia phone. I don't get it. It's like they've gone "we've given them radio - how are we going to get any money out of them from that? Ah - charge them to find out which track they're listening to". Gre
Its Awesome to have visual radio (Score:1)
Re:huh? (Score:2)
ewwww (Score:4, Insightful)
slownewsday or blech ?
Re:ewwww (Score:1)
Re:ewwww (Score:1)
Also comming to india... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Also comming to india... (Score:2)
Re:Also comming to india... (Score:2)
This already exists.. minus graphics (Score:2, Informative)
Re:This already exists.. minus graphics (Score:3, Informative)
It's been around here (the UK) for about 15 years if not more.
It also provides services such as searching for stations based on genre, and automatic switch-over to channels when they broadcast travel news (road updates, etc). When the news about the travel finishes, the radio switches back to your previous station or (if you were listening to one) a CD -- all on standard FM. This is great for car radios, all of which have featured RDS for what seems like forever.
I wonder if DAB Digital Radio ha
Re:This already exists.. minus graphics (Score:3, Informative)
It does: Digital Audio Broadcasting [wikipedia.org]
Another driving distraction (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Another driving distraction (Score:1)
where is /. heading ? (Score:2)
i've had enough of this dumb radio station. they have a set of 100 crappy remixes that hog all their airtime..
and now as if it isnt enough proof that they are a crappy commercial radio station, they try to make us buy their crappy remixes as well? i think these channels have a wrong presumption that indians have too much money and they dont know how to spend. post anything about india and you would get enough page impressions eh ?? why dint this co
Re:where is /. heading ? (Score:1)
Simple. Thats because Finland and Singapoo are not IT super powers!
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'
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.
Re:Visual Radio = dead consept (Score:2)
Well, based upon the story submitter's logic, that must make Finland an economic and IT superpower.
How's that working out for you guys?
Re:Visual Radio = dead consept (Score:2)
It is a good idea to check https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ind
Re:Visual Radio = dead consept (Score:2)
Finland is already economic and IT superpower.
No, you are wrong! Finland is slightly smaller than Montana.
In other words, mostly harmless.
Nice copy and paste job (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Nice copy and paste job (Score:2, Funny)
I'd buy it... (Score:3, Funny)
Superpower checklist (Score:5, Funny)
2. Launch satellites - check
3. ICBM - check
4. Supercomputers - check
5. Visual Radio - check!
You know, (Score:2)
I'm Indian and all that, but can we drop those gratitious references to marches and being an "IT super power" or whatever shit? Propaganda has its uses, but only for totalitarian societies, not a free-thinking, or argumentative [timesonline.co.uk] society that I always thought my country was.
some more googling (Score:1)
A similar service for talk radio. (Score:2)
Re:A similar service for talk radio. (Score:1)
what is this world coming to?
What will be seeing next?
Torture using memory cards???
Nothing to see here, move along (Score:1)
Lame... (Score:3, Funny)
If they could produce pictureless television, it would be a very different matter. But that will probably just remain a dream for many years.
economic superpower powered by visual radio! (Score:1)
Re:economic superpower powered by visual radio! (Score:1)
TV != Visual Radio (Score:1)
Re:TV != Visual Radio (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm right in the epicenter of the whole radio revolution in India. My town just got FM radio that broadcasts the latest music for 'FREE!!'.
Welcome to the 1960's.
Re:India keeps squandering money (Score:1)
Will someone explain how the hell having Visual radio service (provided by a Finnish Company and not an Indian one) has anything to do with India becoming an **IT Super Power**?
I think thats just because Indians are trigget happy with their cell phones and big entertainment buffs. They are probably the biggest chatter boxes on the planet as well (a fact well recognized by MSN
Re:India keeps squandering money (Score:1)
Re:India keeps squandering money (Score:1)
someone has to say it ... (Score:3, Funny)
See the løveli lakes
The wonderful visual radiø
Re:someone has to say it ... (Score:1)
Belongs on thedailywtf.com (Score:2)
This is about try #4 for this concept (Score:3, Informative)
This is about try #4 for this concept. In the 1980s, there was "Silent Radio", which drove LED signs with text messages. These used to show up in bars and restaurants, so you could watch the news and sports scores scroll by. Then there was sending song info on FM subcarriers of broadcast stations, which many car radios understand. XM satellite radio has a fancier system for doing the same thing, as does the on-band-in-channel digital broadcast system.
The main feature of this new system seems to be ads. Yawn.
Coming Next ... (Score:1)
Indian capitalism: (Score:2, Informative)
There was a very interesting piece on BBC Radio's "From Our Own Correspondent", by a journalist who lived in Beijing for four years, then found himself in Delhi for six months. At the end of the six months he's on a flight back to Beijing. The flight leaves at 3am, the ticket agent tells him "Yes, it really is 3am - the airport's too small, so many flights leave at night." Sure enough he arrives to find Delhi airport a heaving mass of people, with that implies in In
Re:Indian capitalism: (Score:1)
There was a very interesting piece on BBC Radio's "From Our Own Correspondent", by a journalist who lived in Beijing for four years, then found himself in Delhi for six months
Found himself in Delhi, you say? Was he Shanghaied?
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Re:Indian capitalism: (Score:1)
Good idea, but the name could be better. (Score:1)
Re:Good idea, but the name could be better. (Score:1)
Quoth Alfred Hitchcock (Score:2)
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 s
Visual radio ?? (Score:1)
Re:U.S. must be a third world country. (Score:1)
Could start with better mental health care for this seems lacking. It is good to teach math in schools - but spelling might be taught too.