Mobile television

I bet you could never imagine what your life would be like thanks to the development of new technologies. You could hardly imagine (if you're old enough, of course) that you would be able to put your trunk's worth of audio cassettes and records and maybe CD's into one little box that may be the size of a matchbox or even less and carry it with you everywhere and be able to listen to it without bugging your neighbors or even people sitting next to you. Or you could hardly imagine that you would be able to transfer information to the opposite side of the world just in one instant while sitting somewhere in the street where there's not even a telephone around. Or you could hardly believe that television sets would once turn into flat panels with the size of a billiard table and at the same time would be able to show images clearer and brighter than anything else you've ever seen.

Well, you could definitely not imagine that you would be able to carry your favorite television shows and movies with you. And not just videos that you recorded previously on a cassette, but real television shows shown to you at that particular moment. And all this is becoming possible today. Amazing, isn't it? Another revolutionary technology that made this all possible is mobile telephone networks that are now turning into something that's hard to call simply telephone networks. They will be broadcasting digital TV programs right onto your handheld device, whether it is a telephone, a smart phone, a PDA or even a laptop.