Know how you always want to show off your latest videos or pictures to your friends when they come over? It usually sucks to plug in the camera to the TV - and thats a possibility if your camera allows it and if the husband hasnt already transferred it to the computer while making claims of clearing up more memory on the camera.

Well NTT DoCoMo has come up with a solution using wireless networking. It would allow a user to use his or her phone to transfer content from the computer to the TV thus allowing everyone to watch their favorite videos or pictures on the telly without needing to lug the computer across or messing around with wires.

Whats even better is that this technology allows you to share your data - movies / pictures stored on your home - to be viewed on any television nearby (say at a friends house , on his TV , without you needing to take a portable HDD or laptop along). Of course that could still be a better choice if you are restricted by slow internet in your area. Or by limited data transfers on your phone. But since this technology is being used in Japan, whose cell phone companies are not as miserly when it comes to data such as ours ; it still may make sense.

Its being called as the MH2H technology - Mobile Home to Home. You could also watch these videos on your cell phone, but given a choice between the 52 inch plasma telly and a 2 inch cell phone display ; its not even worth thinking about what you would choose.

The MH2H enables a user's mobile phone with a wireless LAN function to act as a DLNA's "digital media server" in the network of his/her friend's house. As a storage place of content, the IP address of the user's PC in his/her home was sent to a "digital media player," which streams content. At this point, the mobile phone orders, via a mobile phone network, the PC installed with software for the Pocket U service to accept an HTTP request from a device outside the user's home.

Those techniques enabled the DLNA, which is usually used for home networks, to transfer content between homes. Any device can be used for the service without changing its specifications, as long as it has DMP capabilities.

In addition, with the MH2H, a mobile phone can periodically check if it is connected to the network in the user's friend's home. Therefore, the user's friend cannot watch the content without the presence of its owner

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