I'm a little confused. If I have to subscribe to a "MobileTV" service, forget it. Can this thing be left at home and used over the internet and accessed via iPhone while at a hotspot? It seems like this is not the case. For me, I'd love to have a SlingPlayer for iPhone and just buy a SlingBox so that no matter where I am, I can watch TV, DVR'd shows or even set my DVR to record when I forget something.
You have it exactly right.
This is *NOT* a replacement for a SlingPlayer, or an EyeTV WiFi. This is a mobile
cell phone network live streaming video receiver, with built-in WiFi access point. Its sole purpose is to add
cell phone network live streaming video to mobile phones that don't natively support it. For example, AT&T offers an iPhone-styled LG, or a Samsung, that supports this service. This new "Telly" device would allow iPhones, or Nokia smartphones (plus potentially others,) to access the service.
Here is a link for the
AT&T page on the service. This new "Telly" device is merely an external "receiver" for this service. If you want to watch something that isn't offered by AT&T, you're out of luck, no matter what the local over-the-air broadcast channels are, or what you have on your cable at home.
The channels offered by AT&T are:
"CBS Mobile", which does not necessarily carry the exact same programming at the exact same time as terrestrial CBS, and has no local content.
"CNN Live Mobile", which is, again, not exactly the same as the terrestrial/cable station, but is similar.
Comedy Central, one of the few that appears to be a direct feed of the normal station.
"ESPN Mobile TV", yet again, a "custom" channel, not the same as the cable station.
"Fox Mobile", I think you're starting to get the picture here.
MTV, again, appears to be a direct feed.
"NBC 2GO", which, for example, airs reruns of Jay Leno at noon, and Conan O'Brien at 2:00 PM.
"NBC News 2GO", which appears to be an amalgam of regular broadcast NBC news programs, and the CNBC and MSNBC cable networks.
Nickelodeon
"PIX", a movie channel.
That's it.
No PBS, ABC, or CW, amont others. So if you wanted to watch Nova, Desperate Housewives, or America's Next Top Model on the go, forget it.