New York Times examines wireless entertainment, including videos, TV

The New York Times today published a fairly lengthy article about the business of wireless entertainment, including a fair amount of information about wireless videos and television.

Although the article focuses attention on Trip Hawkins and his wireless game company Digital Chocolate, the Times’ report isn’t a bad summary of the television networks’ cellular TV efforts.  These efforts include cellular episodes  spun off from ABC’s “Lost,” a CBS soap opera exclusively for cellular, HBO’s “Entourage” with episodes just for cellular and VH1’s “Dingo Ate My Video” music video criticism.

The producers of “Lost” are using actors from the series for “The Lost Diaries” cellular episodes.  A key differentiator in the story line is the actors find a video camera.

As a result, the two– to three-minute episodes will be able to “provide more intimate portraits,” the article says.  Carlton Cuse, one of the two executive producers of “Lost,” says in the Times, “It allows you to get deeper into the character, like a diary entry allows you to see deeper into someone's life.”