January 5, 2006

CES: Brands Miss The Killer App(s) With Mobile Video Players

by Guy Brighton

ToyotavidplayerYou can have a slick mobile video player, you can have a slick phone. But you can’t have both, it seems, by looking at the products presented at this year’s CES expo. You may have noticed that one of our themes is ‘Battle For The Bulge’ - an idea that one day consumers will (want to) carry just one portable gadget in their pocket. Mobile video players are huge this year at CES (inspired by the Video iPod, we’d guess) - but they all fail to meet our new expectations.

Mobile video maker manufacturers: here’s the killer apps you missed: it needs to be a phone AND have WiFi.

If you buy one of these, we’d suggest that you expect to replace it pretty soon.

LG’s Video Player
Toshiba’s Video Player
Samsung’s Video Player

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2 Responses to “CES: Brands Miss The Killer App(s) With Mobile Video Players”

  1. option2r
    Posted from: 166.77.6.4

    January 5th, 2006 at 12:26 pm

    hmmm… i don’t think the ipod has really influenced any of the portible media devices. if anything, it was apple that was pretty much pressured by the industry to have a video capabilities, jobs didn’t want one in the beginning. it was big last year, but even bigger this year with the portible media devices.

  2. Anonymous
    Posted from: 62.8.196.210

    January 6th, 2006 at 3:43 am

    That is really strange…
    Back when I was studying media art and design one of our projects was to enter the 2002 (!!) NTT Docmo Mobile Movie Contest. I think we came up with some pretty innovative ideas (for that time at least)like Mobile-Workouts, Mobile Flyers, MobAdds and all that.

    I think the mobile-motion-media field has still enough space for newcomer companies to break into the market with fresh ideas.

    Also all the flash/ mobile shortmovies contests have to be considered. Scenic had one recently, SF has its own mobile shortfilmfestival and this category enters many more festivals across the globe.

    Not to forget the whole demoscene that has started teaming up around mobile videodevices a couple of years ago.

    Anyway the problem here in good old Europe seems to be for me still that IF people purchase mobvideo content it’s crap like crazy fart-frog and related stuff.

    Haven’t seen/used/bought any useful mobvideo stuff!

    Where is it?

    Ah and back to your Mashup-Theory:
    Grandroyal had a really neat concept running with the music DIY Software Acid! where each month a huge act (beastie boys, garbage etc.) supplied their tracks and samples for remix usage… I loved it!

    A maybe 2 year-old (but nevertheless still up-to-date) article about the “mass amateurization of nearly everything” http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2003/09/weblogs_and_the_mass_amateurisation_of_nearly_everything.shtml

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