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Washington D.C is first city to get free mobile DTV

article published on 20 April, 2009

Broadcasters are set to announce later today that Washington D.C. will be the first city in the United States to receive free digital TV (DTV) broadcasts for their mobile phones, laptops and in-car entertainment systems. The broadcasts using "mobile DTV" technology will hit the city in July or August and will come from the local affiliates of CBS, NBC, PBS, FOX and Ion. At launch, ... [ read the full article ]

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21Q
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_ 		20. April 2009 @ 07:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I anticipate that the 3rd gen iPhone will have that included, if AT&T is willing to sign up for it that is. I'm not aware of any tv broadcasting in place from them either. The iphone also does have an add-on specially produced by softbank for such a service. But the device is pretty expensive, and is almost the size of the phone.
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xtago
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_ 		20. April 2009 @ 08:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Old hat.

Australia has been doing this for the last 3-4 years.

3 does a couple cable tv channels and some extras like playboy channel and it's own special channels etc.

Telstra send out all the cable TV Foxtel Channels.

ABC do a few of it's own channels and extras.

These go out all over the country.
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BobL
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_ 		20. April 2009 @ 08:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The US has had this nationwide for about 60 years! Until recently it was called NTSC channels 2-81/69, and now it is called ATSC channels 2-52.

How is "mobile TV" different than standard over-the-air broadcast? And why do we need to repeat the identical programming on another set of frequencies?
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Morreale
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_ 		20. April 2009 @ 16:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Free TV? Free? WTF is this world coming to!?
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Andy7472
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_ 		21. April 2009 @ 01:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No, only free tv if you're not actually playing it on a tv. That would make too much sense.
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