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dereklee003
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 Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:41 am Post subject: Watching Korean TV on the subway |
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| It seems many Koreans watch tv shows on their smartphones on the subway, and I want to do it too. Do they just download shows and put it onto their phone? Or is there is streaming app or website I can use to watch Korean tv shows or channels? |
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fezmond
Joined: 27 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:19 am Post subject: |
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what phone do you have?
does it have DMB? that's how most people watch tv on their phones. most korean made phones seem to have it, iphones don't as far as i know |
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dsun1226
Joined: 27 May 2010
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| fezmond wrote: |
what phone do you have?
does it have DMB? that's how most people watch tv on their phones. most korean made phones seem to have it, iphones don't as far as i know |
For iPhones you can download the app Pooq off the Korean iTunes store. It doesn't have as many channels as a DMB service but it's decent. |
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dereklee003
Joined: 03 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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well my korean phone is just a cheap flip phone. It has dmb, but I'd rather not watch on such a tiny screen. I also carry my i-touch and use wifi on the subways, so was hoping there is something I could do with that.
I couldn't find Pooq, but I downloaded Afreeca which is a free tv streaming app, but it seems 90% of the shows available are the ones that just show nerds playing computer games all day. |
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alongway
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| dsun1226 wrote: |
| fezmond wrote: |
what phone do you have?
does it have DMB? that's how most people watch tv on their phones. most korean made phones seem to have it, iphones don't as far as i know |
For iPhones you can download the app Pooq off the Korean iTunes store. It doesn't have as many channels as a DMB service but it's decent. |
You can just buy a DMB receiver that plugs into the iphone, it's not that big. They sell it on Gmarket and you sometimes see it other places. |
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pegasus64128
Joined: 20 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 1:03 am Post subject: |
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| dereklee003 wrote: |
well my korean phone is just a cheap flip phone. It has dmb, but I'd rather not watch on such a tiny screen. I also carry my i-touch and use wifi on the subways, so was hoping there is something I could do with that.
I couldn't find Pooq, but I downloaded Afreeca which is a free tv streaming app, but it seems 90% of the shows available are the ones that just show nerds playing computer games all day. |
Starcraft battles. That's all I ever watched on K-TV. Then I stopped watching K-TV completely, which is the best thing about living in Korea. I watch less TV and that's healthy, though sometimes boring. |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 1:24 am Post subject: |
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DMB doesn't use wifi or your cellphone's dataplan. DMB is broadcast on it's own frequency, just like regular TV or radio except that it's streaming a digital signal instead of something analogue.
So unless your phone, tablet, ebook, etc already has the built in equipment to receive a DMB signal (or you have an external adapter) then you're out of luck.
What you can do is buy a small DMB portable TV. You can fit it in your pocket or mount in on the dashboard of a car. (There's nothing I love more than riding in a taxi with a driver watching TV while he's driving in downtown traffic.) |
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crosbystillsstash
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 3:18 am Post subject: Re: Watching Korean TV on the subway |
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| dereklee003 wrote: |
| It seems many Koreans watch tv shows on their smartphones on the subway, and I want to do it too. |
Why ......it's crap dramas and the same 5 gag men all the time. That and K pop ballads are enough to make one vomit |
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Teelo
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Wellington, NZ
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 5:18 am Post subject: |
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| Slightly off-topic here. I haven't been back to korea since smartphones went mainstream - do you get many brats playing terrible quality music on their phones loud enough for the entire subway car to hear? |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Teelo wrote: |
| Slightly off-topic here. I haven't been back to korea since smartphones went mainstream - do you get many brats playing terrible quality music on their phones loud enough for the entire subway car to hear? |
Yes.
I checked, and my DMB service has a crappy list of channels. |
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Teelo
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Wellington, NZ
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 1:17 am Post subject: |
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Damn. Mostly murrays here who do that, and I want to punch them.  |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| My ordinary cellphone has an antennae and picks up all the ordinary/broadcast channels that you would get at home with a TV and rabbit ears. No cable obviously. No smart phone, no ap, just TV. Oh, and internet. |
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chungbukdo
Joined: 22 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| alongway wrote: |
| dsun1226 wrote: |
| fezmond wrote: |
what phone do you have?
does it have DMB? that's how most people watch tv on their phones. most korean made phones seem to have it, iphones don't as far as i know |
For iPhones you can download the app Pooq off the Korean iTunes store. It doesn't have as many channels as a DMB service but it's decent. |
You can just buy a DMB receiver that plugs into the iphone, it's not that big. They sell it on Gmarket and you sometimes see it other places. |
Wow Ive never seen one of these before. Do you know how much they usually go for?
I was looking for a USB one for my laptop on gmarket and they all seemed to be like 35,000 and up which I thought was a rip off, because people give away their old flip phones with DMB if you just search around. |
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dsun1226
Joined: 27 May 2010
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| chungbukdo wrote: |
| alongway wrote: |
| dsun1226 wrote: |
| fezmond wrote: |
what phone do you have?
does it have DMB? that's how most people watch tv on their phones. most korean made phones seem to have it, iphones don't as far as i know |
For iPhones you can download the app Pooq off the Korean iTunes store. It doesn't have as many channels as a DMB service but it's decent. |
You can just buy a DMB receiver that plugs into the iphone, it's not that big. They sell it on Gmarket and you sometimes see it other places. |
Wow Ive never seen one of these before. Do you know how much they usually go for?
I was looking for a USB one for my laptop on gmarket and they all seemed to be like 35,000 and up which I thought was a rip off, because people give away their old flip phones with DMB if you just search around. |
I have seen the iPhone DMB receivers at the Apple Authorized Retailers throughout Seoul for around 60,000-70,000 won. |
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