(keitai-l) Re: Related - Mobile computing on a new level

From: Darren Luckett <darren_at_www.ukmedia.us>
Date: 02/18/04
Message-Id: <20040218033948.M12389@www.ukmedia.us>
foma is quite successful considering its market time. 
hdtv is popular in japan. 

the end of this thread, it is now.


On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:33:04 +0900 (JST), Curt Sampson wrote
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Darren Luckett wrote:
> 
> > marketspeak again. no story needed to sell new technology, function sells
> > it - ie clearer pictures = DVD, Videophone = 3G.
> 
> That strikes me as quite wrong indeed. If clearer pictures, rather
> than a much handier physical format and better features (multiple
> soundtracks, subtitles that can be turned on and off, etc.), are what
> sold DVDs, why has HDTV stalled so badly? If Videophone is what's
> selling 3G, why is Docomo's 3G network, which is the only one that 
> has real videophone service, the least popular?
> 
> cjs
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