[rohrpost] Re: SMS-Encounters

[Krystian Woznicki]

SMS TV

By John Leyden, 25/06/2002 at 15:25 GMT

Is nowhere safe from text messaging, coming soon to landlines and not so=20
soon to TVs?

A Devon firm called WirelessOcean has developed Text2TV, a set-top=20
box-based system which plugs into a mobile phone's data port and one of a=20
TV set's multimedia SCART channels, New Scientist reports.

If someone texts you, the message pops up on your screen. To reply you can=
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use a remote control and a virtual keyboard on the screen or, if you're a=20
Sky subscriber, you can just key in the message. There's no need to key in=
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a message using a mobile phone in either case.

To use the system you still need a phone, but Wireless Ocean hopes the idea=
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of using a more user-friendly interface will catch on.

It's showing prototypes of its technology to consumer electronics=20
manufacturers and hopes they will build in the technology to future TVs,=20
video recorders and mobile phones. =AE

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