DoCoMo serves your DLNA content to a friend's TV via mobile phone

by Samuel Axon, posted Oct 10th 2008 at 4:49PM

Eager to live in the fantastical future it has prophesied, NTT DoCoMo went to CEATEC and demoed an upcoming addition to its Pocket U service: MH2H (Mobile Home to Home), which gives you the ability use your cellphone to stream content from your computer at home to a friend's TV. The phone connects to your friend's WiFi network and sends his or her DLNA-compliant receiver the IP address of your also-DLNA-compliant server, then tells said server to accept the connection and start streaming any videos, songs, or photos you feel like sharing. When you leave, the connection ends and every one goes back to partying on their own isolated media islands like it's 2006.

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Filed under: Media PCs, Media streamers, Internet

Tags: ceatec, ceatec 2008, ceatec2008, cellphone, dlna, media server, media streamer, mediastreamer, mh2h, mobile, mobile home to home, mobile phone, ntt docomo, nttdocomo, pocket u, streaming, wifi, wireless

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adam @ Oct 10th 2008 4:56PM

Interresting concept, I would like to know what phone platforms they hope to get this working on, and honestly I am having a hard time seeing what the purpose of the phone is in the whole process at all, other than basically a key to tell the two networks to talk. Sounds similar to using a slingcatcher, just different required hardware. Adam http://www.hdupdate.com

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Aaron Smith @ Oct 10th 2008 5:17PM

I'm wondering why they can't just have a login and password to your PC instead of having the phone in the way.

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Flicky @ Oct 10th 2008 5:55PM

Can't a PSP2000 (3000) / PS3 via Remote Play do somewhat the same thing ?

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