Live Streaming TV hits Android

Today, a $9.95 streaming TV app hit the Android Market that has seriously blown me away.

SPB TV 1.0 has got a whole bunch of channels (the press release today says 100+ in 20+ languages,) an awesome interface, an integrated programming guide, picture-in-picture and the ability to set calendar reminders for upcoming shows.

Screenshot from SPB TV

I don’t generally seek out live streams of anything. Like I’ve said in prior posts, I listen to Web radio and stuff (the DroidLive ShoutCast client is great, by the way) but I’m much more a fan of on-demand streaming.

However, SPB TV has really grabbed me. It’s that slick.

The app has been around already on Windows Mobile 6 and Symbian S60 3rd ed. On those platforms, however, the app is much larger and slightly more expensive: 5MB and $14.95…the Android app is only .6MB and $9.95. Either it’s missing some of the functionality of the other platforms, or we’ve got ourselves a fantastic little app here. (We’ve also gotten it before iPhone…but that’s not so surprising, right?)

I’m actually going to go watch it a bit more, and I’ll update this post with further assessments. Right now I’m giving this a tentative “buy” rating even though i’m not totally sure I’ll ever actually use it.

I may just be enamored that it looks so good and actually kind of works.