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Weather Channel To Launch a Mobile Video Forecasts

By admin ⋅ October 23, 2007 ⋅  Send this to a friend.. ⋅  Print this article. ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Add to Technorati Favorites

The Weather Channel Interactive is the leading provider of broadband and wireless weather products.The Weather Channel will this week launch a new mobile video forecasts service powered by Vantrix.

The new service is claimed to be a first in this space and will involve the production and streaming of over 5000 mobile video clips per day covering 100 cities, with new clips made available every 30 minutes.

During the initial pilot, the service will be available on most video-capable phones from the four largest US carriers (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile), with carrier and handset coverage to be expanded after the initial trial. The videos will be encoded in H.264 which in theory should provide access to iPhones as well.

The Weather Channel will have access to 80 million handsets during the pilot program.

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