Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
NBC Universal has signed a deal with mobile media company MobiTV to bring some of their most popular shows to a cell phone near year, according to a report in Variety.
For $1.99 per episode, fans can download episodes of such popular shows as “Battlestar Galactica”, “Heroes” and “The Office.” The shows are available to users for a 24-hour period after purchase.
MobiTV will also feature several ad-support channels with short-videos and full-length shows from other NBC Universal outlets like USA, Bravo and SciFi.
In order to take advantage of the service, cell phone users must pay a ten dollar a month subscription fee for MobiTV.
MobiTV is availalbe as an option on most popular cellular services.
iTunes has done it better already. Same price, no expiration date, and playable on video iPods as well as computers. There are some things that phones *shouldn’t* do.