{"id":6578,"date":"2010-03-05T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T23:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=6578"},"modified":"2010-03-05T16:13:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T23:13:42","slug":"the-oscars-on-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/6578\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow the Oscars Live On Your Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Oscars.com<\/p>\n

The 82nd Academy Awards will be held this Sunday.\u00a0 The event is telecast live worldwide and the Academy claims it will be watched by over one billion viewers, making it the fourth most watched live television broadcast, after the Super Bowl, Olympics Opening Ceremony and World Cup Final.<\/p>\n

If you are one of the many billions who can’t watch the Oscars live on TV, I’ve found a couple of mobile sites where you can follow the festivities using your mobile browser.<\/p>\n

The official Oscars site at m.oscar.com<\/a> was created by Netbiscuits<\/a> for The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<\/span> and ABC, Inc.<\/span>, the official Oscars broadcaster in the US. It lists all of this year’s nominees and promises to have live coverage starting at 8 PM EST on Oscar night. It’s not clear if the live coverage will be streaming video or text, but I suspect the later.<\/p>\n

While you’re waiting for the show to start you can view hundreds of photos of stars on the runway from the last five years of Oscar or read a detailed history of the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

The site also has 35 videos including a multi-part “Road to the Oscars” piece, explanations of the science behind some of the nominees for technical awards and video interviews with nominees, hosts and writers. Unlike last year, there don’t seem to be any trailers from the nominated films. The videos are served in a variety of formats and should work on any video capable device ranging from basic feature phones to the iPhone.<\/p>\n

You can also sign up on the site for live text alerts featuring news about the nominees, information about special promotions, and live updates throughout the show (standard text messaging rates apply).<\/p>\n

Ratings:<\/em> Content \"*\"\"*\"\"*\"\"*\"\"_\" Usability \"X\"\"X\"\"X\"\"X\"\"_\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Ready.mobi Score: <\/em>4 “Good”<\/a><\/p>\n

Mobile Link:<\/em> m.oscar.com<\/a><\/p>\n

According to mobilizedtv.com<\/a> one site that will definitely stream live Oscars videos to mobiles is AP Live Entertainment<\/em> . It’s a new partnership between the Associated Press and Livestream.com which launch with a special Oscars Red Carpet<\/em> show Sunday from 6 to 8 PM EST. The show’s main draw will be live streaming video of celebrities walking up the red carpet as they enter the Kodak Theater for the event. AP reporters will also post live updates during the awards ceremony and from Oscar after parties well into the evening.<\/p>\n

One caveat is that Livestream apparently only works with the iPhone, iPodTouch, Android devices and recent BlackBerrys. I tried some of the site’s other mobile streams of my N95-3 and got nothing.<\/p>\n

Ratings:<\/em> Content \"*\"\"*\"\"*\"\"*\"\"_\" Usability \"X\"\"X\"\"X\"\"_\"\"_\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Ready.mobi Score: <\/em>2 “Bad”<\/a><\/p>\n

Mobile Link:<\/em> mobile.livestream.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Related:<\/em> Wap Review Directory – Entertainment\/Oscars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 82nd Academy Awards will be held this Sunday.\u00a0 The event is telecast live worldwide and the Academy claims it will be watched by over one billion viewers, making it the fourth most watched live television broadcast, after the Super Bowl, Olympics Opening Ceremony and World Cup Final. If you are one of the many billions who can’t watch the Oscars live on TV, I’ve found a couple of mobile sites where you can follow the festivities using your mobile … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[1045,1046,183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6580,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions\/6580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}