One Seg television more popular than video iPod?
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japan.internet.com published the results of the latest survey by JR Tokai Express Research, conducted at the end of September into the usage of video contents on mobile phones and other portable devices. They interviewed 330 people from their internet monitor panel. 72.1% were male, 18.8% in their twenties, 41.5% in their thirties, 27.6% in their forties, 9.7% in their fifties, and 2.4% in their sixties.
I’m still looking for my ideal video playback device; around iPod Nano size, but with a screen covering all of one face. Battery life would need to be around four hours, or two hours plus external battery pack for emergencies, although two hours is perhaps borderline. I’ll be buying a new phone, a P702iD, which apparently has video playback from SD card, but as to the quality, I’ll have to wait and see. I’d love to be able to download on my PC the latest BBC news overnight and have an SD card waiting for me in the morning loaded with the news sized to the mobile’s screen. There is apparently iChannel that does this for you for a fee, but the transmission charges would make it unfeasable, I fear.
Q1: Have you ever watched moving pictures on a portable device? (Sample size=330)
Often 6.7% Sometimes 17.3% Done so once or twice 16.1% Never 30.9% Don’t have a portable device that allows playback 23.9% Don’t have any portable devices 5.2% Q2: What sort of content did you play back? (Sample size=132, multiple choice)
Votes Percentage Video taken by mobile phone 76 57.6% Mobile phone-specific contents 61 46.2% Converted from PC, etc, contents 22 16.7% Don’t know or can’t remember 4 3.0% Other 7 5.3% The “Other” category included podcasts, digital camera movies, and hard disk recorder (PVR) files.
Q3: Which of the following devices do you plan to buy? (Sample size=330, multiple choice)
Votes Percentage One Seg mobile phone 98 29.7% Portable audio player with video playback capability 36 10.9% One Seg device other than mobile phone 22 6.7% Portable Media Player 13 3.9% Mobile phone with analogue TV capability 3 0.9% Portable analogue television 1 0.3% Don’t plan to buy any 191 57.9% Other 5 1.5%
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