Mobile video has always been a sought after luxury.
Think back to classic sit-comes where the nurse is sitting at the waiting room desk with a classic mobile television in hand; long antenna pointed upwards and a small screen attached to a clunky box filled with batteries.
It feels like just yesterday when mobile televisions were released and became the latest craze.
Since the conception of mobile televisions, the idea of portable video has come a long way.
The first notable advancement was video on cellular phones.
Video on cellular phones, was initially not very good and left a lot to be desired.
Limitations in the processing power lead to choppy video; furthermore limitations of slow cellular networks designed to transmit simple data such as text messages and nothing more lead to worse performance.
Early video on mobile was limited to very few channels and a slow frame rate which looked more like a slide-show than a video.
Due to those limitations many users gave up on the idea of cellular video.
It became almost globally accepted that video on cellular phones was not going to be a success and cellular networks stopped promoting the mobile video services.
That was, until, 3G mobile phones were released.
Cellular companies quickly began to realize that cellular phones were for much more than just calls and consumers needed to be able to transfer data.
3G high-speed mobile services were launched and shortly after 3G mobile phones, which opened a new world for portable video.