No your actual TV screens aren't getting smaller, but TV content is going to a smaller screen. That would be the screen of many mobile phones. Mobile TV seems to be taking off with many services expanding and luanching new programs for their services. Companies like Sprint Nextel, Verizon and AT&T are all now having mobile TV content provide for some of their phones.
The service provides believe that mobile TV will be a success because it will allow people to view things anywhere at anytime, even though only about seven percent of mobile subscribers watch video on their phones. But with a recently started plan to sets their TV content at a flat-rate fee and the fact the revenues for mobile video have gone up in the last three months, from $112 million to $308 million now, media groups seem to think that mobile TV will be a successful venture.
The players in the mobile TV market are mainly just Sprint Nextel, Verizon and AT&T. Sprint Nextel's offerings include NFL network, Weather Channel, E!, CNN and more. Verizon offers ESPN, NBC, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comdey Central and CBS. And then we have the most recent ventures into the mobile TV business, AT&T which offers the same programming as does Verizon because of a partnership with Qualcomm MediaFLO the same company Verizon partners with. But in addition to the same channels as Verizon AT&T will exclusively offer the channels PIX, a Sony movie channel, and CNN Mobile Live.
With mobile TV seemingly gaining popularity at a steady pace and providers thinking that the content will succeed over the long hual. There has seemed to be another innovation come along, that is the Blu-ray technology seems to be steming over into the mobile world. A company called NetBlender has come up with a way to blend Blu-ray technology with an iphone, thus being able to enhance the quality of content provided.
Mobile TV I believe has just begun in the stages of becoming something that will be at anyones disposal at anytime. I think it will succeed greatly because people have their phones with themselves almost all the time and this will alone themselves to be entertained will waiting for a haircut, at the airport, or other things. So TV screens are getting smaller, they are going to the mobile phone screens.