Analog TV shutdown kills free cell-phone TV

Cybergal · Aug 18, 2008

Analog TV shutdown kills free cell-phone TV
8/18/08

NEW YORK - Picture whipping out your cell phone and catching up with "Lost" or "Jeopardy," or watching the local 11 o'clock news, all for free.
You can do this with an imported Chinese phone, but you can't with any phone sold in the U.S. at least not without monthly charges.
This is one of the reasons the United States is behind several other countries when it comes to making television an attractive option for cell phones. Carrier business models are partly at fault, but choices about TV technology made long ago are largely to blame.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080817/ap_on_hi_te/tec_free_mobile_tv;_ylt=Akvl0dEVN6e9G7XpYew9iv6s0NUE
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GadgetKen · Jun 5, 2009

There's hope. LG (and I think Samsung) are coming out with Digital TV/cellphone hybrids. Uses a special digital TV signal broadcast just for mobile devices. I'm sure other manufacturers will copy them once they start being sold. http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/04/04/lg-electronics-demonstrates-atsc-mobile-digital-tv/

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