ZIM Launches TV Platform for the Internet and Mobile Phones

seanboy · 11-14-2006, 07:05 AM

More good news for .mobi:

OTTAWA, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - ZIM Corporation (OTCBB: ZIMCF - News), a mobile entertainment and Internet TV service provider, today announced it has launched ZIMTV and ZIMTV.mobi, an English based peer-to-peer ("P2P") Internet TV platform for personal computers and mobile phones. ZIMTV is an expansion of ZIM's overall Internet TV strategy which also includes a partnership with PPLive.com, the world's largest P2P Internet TV provider with over fifty million users.

Reat the rest of the article here:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061114/mo457.html?.v=2

namewaiter · 11-14-2006, 07:14 AM

cool nice article ... and i really like their mobile address....

http://www.zimtv.biz/watchtvphone.html

gen · 11-14-2006, 07:41 AM

http://zimtv.mobi/

cool

compubahn · 11-14-2006, 08:30 AM

Interesting site.

A few of the videos timed out while buffering. The error said the site was too busy.

Tried to watch "Fast & Furious" & got an out of memory error after a few minutes. My phone runs windows mobile. There is a way to set up pocket IE to save the cache to the removable memory card - but it requires a registry hack which most users will not do.

Makes you wonder about the short term viability of streaming content sites like this one. Cool idea... But how many phones can actually handle it?

namewaiter · 11-14-2006, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by compubahn

Interesting site.

A few of the videos timed out while buffering. The error said the site was too busy.

Tried to watch "Fast & Furious" & got an out of memory error after a few minutes. My phone runs windows mobile. There is a way to set up pocket IE to save the cache to the removable memory card - but it requires a registry hack which most users will not do.

Makes you wonder about the short term viability of streaming content sites like this one. Cool idea... But how many phones can actually handle it?

i agree it will be interesting to see, but you gotta think they (the manufacturers and providers) will work it out. i think streaming media is one of the most important and may be the biggest aspect of the mobile web - including music videos, movies, video clips, commercials, video confernecing and tv shows

compubahn · 11-14-2006, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by namewaiter

i agree it will be interesting to see, but you gotta think they (the manufacturers and providers) will work it out. i think streaming media is one of the most important and may be the biggest aspect of the mobile web - including music videos, movies, video clips, commercials, video confernecing and tv shows

Agreed. If there is money to be made, they will find a way to make streaming content work on many phones.

I even regged mediaphones.mobi to illustrate my belief in the concept. However, I was just a little surprised it doesn't work already given the type of phone (xv6700 pocket pc). I would fully expect my older moto e815 to catch fire if I tried to load that site...

capiche · 11-14-2006, 10:11 AM

This site was interesting to me.

http://www.oplayo.com/index.php?section=40

Probably cost an arm and a leg, though.

It would also be nice if there was someone like clipsyndicate.com, but strictly for mobile devices.

newton · 11-14-2006, 10:48 AM

Some interesting demographics released in October http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1041

namewaiter · 11-14-2006, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by newton

Some interesting demographics released in October http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1041

yea, very interesting numbers. the total online us adult population is more than the other countries combined, but what struck me is the low % of us adults accessing the web via a mobile - may explain why so many here are down on .mobi - i do think this number climb quickly as newer networks are rolled out.

11-14-2006, 07:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
seanboy Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,188 0.00 NP$ (Donate)	ZIM Launches TV Platform for the Internet and Mobile Phones More good news for .mobi: OTTAWA, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - ZIM Corporation (OTCBB: ZIMCF - News), a mobile entertainment and Internet TV service provider, today announced it has launched ZIMTV and ZIMTV.mobi, an English based peer-to-peer ("P2P") Internet TV platform for personal computers and mobile phones. ZIMTV is an expansion of ZIM's overall Internet TV strategy which also includes a partnership with PPLive.com, the world's largest P2P Internet TV provider with over fifty million users. Reat the rest of the article here: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061114/mo457.html?.v=2

11-14-2006, 07:14 AM	#2 (permalink)
namewaiter Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: cleveland Posts: 2,022 1,201.00 NP$ (Donate)	cool nice article ... and i really like their mobile address.... http://www.zimtv.biz/watchtvphone.html __________________ sorry, but the 's' kills it

11-14-2006, 07:41 AM	#3 (permalink)
gen NamePros Regular Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 661 60.00 NP$ (Donate)	http://zimtv.mobi/ cool Last edited by tee; 11-14-2006 at 07:48 AM.

11-14-2006, 10:11 AM	#7 (permalink)
capiche NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 815 227.00 NP$ (Donate)	This site was interesting to me. http://www.oplayo.com/index.php?section=40 Probably cost an arm and a leg, though. It would also be nice if there was someone like clipsyndicate.com, but strictly for mobile devices. Last edited by capiche; 11-14-2006 at 03:07 PM.

11-14-2006, 10:48 AM	#8 (permalink)
newton Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 1,309 100.00 NP$ (Donate)	Some interesting demographics released in October http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1041 __________________ creates.me . casts.me . films.me . cells.me . debts.me . describes.me . delivers.me . installs.me . learns.me . shemales.me . socal.me . unions.me

11-14-2006, 08:30 AM	#4 (permalink)
compubahn NamePros Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 113 65.00 NP$ (Donate)	Interesting site. A few of the videos timed out while buffering. The error said the site was too busy. Tried to watch "Fast & Furious" & got an out of memory error after a few minutes. My phone runs windows mobile. There is a way to set up pocket IE to save the cache to the removable memory card - but it requires a registry hack which most users will not do. Makes you wonder about the short term viability of streaming content sites like this one. Cool idea... But how many phones can actually handle it?

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