ATSC approves mobile DTV standard

news article released on: 19 October, 2009

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has approved of the new ATSC Mobile DTV Standard this week in the US, allowing local TV broadcasters to broadcast to mobile devices using any frequencies they may already be using. The standard pertains to notebooks, in-car systems, Internet tablets and mobile phones. Mobile TV has been extremely successful in Japan and other Asian nations ...

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So, they can now broadcast the same content twice? Wouldn't it be a whole lot easier to just put HDTV tuners into cell phones?

Why build cell phones with HDTV tuners that won't tune normal HDTV, just to force the stations to broadcast everything twice?

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So since it runs over the DTV band, it means that it won't work with devices from Japan will it. Shame. They should really just use the same band to have more standardization with technology around the globe. But the military uses that band here in the US right? *can't remember the band name right now*

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