Moving to Cut TV's Ties to the Living Room Set (cable on cell phone)

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tv6jan06.story
Moving to Cut TV's Ties to the Living Room Set
Companies are enabling customers to tune in their favorite shows on the road with cellphones and other gadgets.
By Jon Healey and Alex Pham
Times Staff Writers

January 6, 2005

Joe Harris doesn't watch TV the way most people do, but his geeky approach may not seem odd for long.

Consider what he did last September as the seesaw U.S. Open tennis tournament semifinal between Jennifer Capriati and Elena Dementieva entered the decisive third set.

He was in a bar at San Diego International Airport, and his airline announced that his flight was about to board. Most people would have paid their tabs, trudged off and missed Dementieva's victory. Harris took out his palm-sized electronic organizer at the gate, logged into a wireless Internet service and tapped into the cable TV feed at his Portland, Ore., home.

As the line of people slowly filed onto the plane, he watched the rest of the match on his organizer's small color screen.

"It was beautiful," he said, "and crisp."<snip>