LG's DMB phone lets you pause live TV for calls

No, DMB, or Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, still isn't coming to America, but LG is addressing one of the problems inherent in watching live broadcast TV on your cellphone — namely, whether or not you should to stop to answer that important phone call when you're in the middle of watching the big game or whatever — with a new TiVo-like handset that always stores a cache of what you're watching so you can answer the call and then automatically pick up where you've left off. Seems pretty obvious, but apparently no other DMB-enabled phones have this feature.

[jeff @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

newsflash:
I have been watching live tv on my pocket pc phone for over a year. You can also do it with a smartphone. Check this out: www.orb.com

[Peter Rojas @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

Jeff, yeah, we know about Orb, we've written about it tons of times, we've even interviewed the founder:

http://www.engadget.com/search/?sourceid=Mozilla-search&q=orb

DMB is a totally different technology and doesn't rely on streaming IP over a cellular network.

[AJ @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

so the Koreans have Tivo on their phones and I don't even have one on my 25" TV. That's just not fair at all....

[Brian @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

Hmmm, its all about the rotating screen.

[Joe @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

Is it me or does everyone think "dumb" when you read DMB? You got your smart phones then on the other hand...

[David @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

"so the Koreans have Tivo on their phones and I don't even have one on my 25" TV. That's just not fair at all...."

hahahahaha

[pixelate @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

heh, talk about "Tivo to Go"

[xfsu @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

Korea DMB use H.264 as video streaming codec. LG's phone must have the function to record the H.264 streaming in its big memory.

[Mr. Kim @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

Max, you won't find DMB in japan, sorry.