Mobile Services for Seamless Audio-Visual Content Consumption

- Service Examples and Business Model Considerations -

The number of mobile services for audio-visual content consumption proliferates.

The services for audiovisual content consumption provided on mobile devices become increasingly similar to the services available on stationary devices as PCs and TV sets: mobile TV and mobile access to media centres and podcasts are some examples here. This serves as a basis for seamless services for audio-visual content consumption on mobile and stationary devices.

Seamless services means that the user does not have to worry about any service delivery issue but may instead focus on content and service consumption only.

On the whole, there are a lot of services and content approaches, business opportunities and business models as well as substantial challenges for the media and telecommunications industries in order to generate and provide new commercial services for seamless audio-visual content consumption.

After an introductory chapter, this study describes the nature of seamless services in the mobile and home environment. The main section provides a lot of existing and future examples of mobile services for seamless audio-visual content consumption. The regulatory section explains some of the hurdles for the new services, especially copyrights. The study closes with business model considerations.