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http://www.twice.com/article/388144-...ner_At_499.php
"City of Industry, Calif. - The first market-ready Mobile DTV tuner for the car was shown by Concept Enterprises, in a $499-suggested tuner due in early December.
A standard for Mobile DTV was just approved last month by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) allowing clean reception of live, local simulcast TV content in a car or to a portable device.
Mobile DTV uses the same digital spectrum as local TV stations for HD programming and can stream it without ghosting or pixilation to a moving vehicle. It also comes without monthly service fees.
The first commercially ready Mobile DTV tuner was unveiled by Concept at the SEMA show this month, although Kenwood has shown prototype models in the past.
Concept's tuner will work with any after-market or OEM monitor with RCA outputs. The tuner is smaller than a Blackberry phone and requires a 1-inch roof-mount antenna base with a 6-inch-long antenna wire.
In the past, broadcast TV reception in the car has been limited. "Any time you moved over 20 miles per hour, the picture would break up and you'd get pixelation," said Concept national sales manager Al Miller, adding, "With the new LG ATSC M/H chip, we can receive these signals."
He added, "Especially since AT&T CruiseCast is no longer, people are looking for an inexpensive TV solution to get TV in the car. You get clean, clear reception of local broadcasting."
The ATSC Mobile DTV standard allows broadcasters to use a portion of the existing 19.3Mbps DTV channel capacity to transmit data with very robust characteristics suitable for mobile, pedestrian and handheld products, said LG maker of the Mobile DTV chips.
Broadcasters are testing or airing the service in 29 markets, expected to grow to 70 by the end of the year, according to Anne Schelle, executive director of Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC), the trade group supporting Mobile DTV."
Hopefully this or other products like these will make there way into CarPC setups. Seems like a better option than Slingbox and a much cheaper solution than satellite TV.
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Not much detail in the link, I'm afraid. It's just a press release. A review would be more interesting.
I didn't think the tuner is particularly small. Have you seen the Hauppauge HVR line? I have one in my M35, it worked fine when parked. Not when moving though, but I think that was due to the very tiny antenna I have. I have that antenna now on my Sequoia, tied to a long thin cable, so that I can move around and place it on the roof, in the rare cases I decide to use it. Haven't test it much though.
Europeans have great antennas for digital tv in the car, I think I've seen a DVB setup with two antennas in an array (front windshield and side window), amplified, so that they can get the best signal. I haven't seen anything like that for ATSC. EDIT: The setup I've seen used these Hirschmann antennas (check the .pdf). I'd love to find something similar for ATSC...
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Theres another thread on this thats why..... you can see me reviewing both mobile atsc and 4g based mobile tv in my ces 2010 thread.
Picture quality is the same as traditional atsc, its really the same digital stream just designed to survive speed changes without distortion.
Being free is an obvious advantage...but limited reception area as well as 1/10 of the available channels of the 4g based technologies puts it considerably behind before its even launched.
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Limited reception area for ATSC? As opposed to 4G? I thought we had all transitioned to digital already, and OTA digital is everywhere (not necessarily HD, but digital nonetheless).
How much is this 4G based tv anyway?
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We did but you really only get atsc reception in range of major cities.....compare that with cell phone coverage.Originally Posted by RipplingHurst
But really the appeal is ~12 channels at best with mobile atsc compared to 85...soon to be 120 with 4g (i'm blanking on the name at the moment). I think pricing was ~$25/month but i could be way off.
Basically its like comparing basic cable with basic satellite.
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Interesting info, thanks.
I think the appeal of OTA channels is the local news, at least for me. You're stuck in traffic, turn on the local news tv coverage, and there they are reporting about it. That and local sports, etc., all free. That's for me what's cool about tv in a car. When you get a strong HDTV signal, passengers go WOW.
I think Hulu and the content storage in the car is enough for out of town entertainment (specially for kids, 10GB of Tom&Jerry goes a long way), but I see your point. Depending where you live, kids age, etc., that may be a good deal, specially if it's really at $25.00.
Not sure how local news would work with the 4g broadcasting.
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