Innovating for and by users
Edited by Jo Pierson, Enid Mante-Meijer, Eugène Loos and Bartolomeo Sapio
A publication of COST - European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research

Innovating for and by users

Of particular interest are chapters 2 and 3:

2 Confronting video-on-demand with television viewing practices
3 Mobile television: A hype or a real consumer need?

This concept could be interesting for watching TV with friends, a phone that projects a movie onto a surface:

http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=5993

First announced back in January, this is finally about to go into beta - see the Engadget article:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/18/slingplayer-mobile-for-blackberry-goes-beta-at-long-last-on-dece/

Would be interesting to see how well this works in practice: roll on the reviews..