3MobileTV on Android G1

I guess, I'm one of the very few G1 owner with drei.at (Hutchison 3G Austria) as provider. But in my opinion this is really a winning team. Beside the quite cheap contract, they offer interesting services, like MobileTV.

I recognized a few months ago, that drei.at offers for their 3G data-contracts a few free live-streams for watching TV on notebooks. They offer ORF1,ORF2, BBC World,ATV,PULS4, Red Bull Tv... and many more channels. If you visit http://www.drei.at on a notebook with a 3G modem from drei.at you could watch the live-streams in the Quicktime file format (*.mov).

So I was looking for quicktime streaming support for android, unsuccessfully.

Today, I had the idea, to look for the mobile portal website "Planet3". With the help of Google, I found it. Please keep in mind, that this URLs only work with a contract from drei.at:

• http://mobile.drei.at

And more important the MobileTV portal:

• http://mobile.drei.at/mobiletv/

The live-streams there, work out out the box, RTCP is used for the protocol and 3gp for the file format. So it's very similar to youtube mobile, which is also supported on android.

You need a proper 3G connection, for a nice watching experience. There are also HD live-streams, but they don't work fluently. I don't now if it's because of my connection quality or my G1. Perhaps the HD streams work better with Android 1.5.

The screen size is also pretty usable.