Microtune's in-car TV tuner snags 'Days of our Lives' at 125mph
By Darren Murph 
posted Dec 9th 2008 11:36AM
posted Dec 9th 2008 11:36AM
Say you're James Bond (or similar), and for once, you're actually not the one behind the wheel. While you're being chauffeured around the elegant Italian countryside at breakneck speeds, you'll probably want a little live TV entertainment from the back seat. Enter Microtune's MicroTuner, a "first-of-its-kind tuner chip for high-speed in-car TV." Put simply, the MT2067 is built to provide "superior, stable TV reception for passengers in vehicles traveling at top speeds along the autobahn or highway," and supposedly, it can retain a clear signal whilst motoring at 125 miles-per-hour. Better still, it's supports worldwide analog / digital terrestrial standards including NTSC, PAL, SECAM, DVB-T, DVB-H, ISDB-T, DTMB, ATSC and ATSC-M/H. $20 says this comes integrated into next year's TV-infused line of Bentley motorcars.
Pffft! What I'm waiting for is a multi-core, supertuner. One which will simultaneously tap into every channel I get via cable/satellite/air and record a five minute stream of each. The end result would be that I could change to whatever channel i like and there would be five minutes of rewind time at all times. No more missing the front end of a show or accidentally changing the channel and losing my skip buffer in media center!
your gong to need more than a supertuner...youll need a massively fast SSD or hardrive, tons of ram....i know the idea your thinking of but I really dont think we have tech capable in a standard PC or setop box to record 100+ channels at the same time...let alone in HD
I think if I watched TV in a moving car I would vomit everywhere within minutes.
FIRST of all: Why stop with cars? They should implement this into notebooks! :
Second: ... ... I really don't have anything to say... just wanted to be first
Hopefully by the time this comes out there's a better channel lineup in cars...
Tuner is nice and all but what I don't really get is the "micro" part. Is a car so small that you need to make "world's smallest" tuner to fit it inside?
Other than that its certainly nice to be able to watch TV at 125 miles per hour while driving.
Doesn't over-the-air TV go bye bye in Feb. 2009? How am I supposed to drive watching the morning news, email from my blackberry and shout at my dog in the backseat to lay down now?
Not all over-the-air, just analog, digital over-the-air TV will still be going strong.
...And it is currently an issue that ATSC (the OTA digital standard in the US) does not work with a mobile receiver.
For the rest of the world, thats about 201 kilometers per hour.
Kilometers we don't need no stinking Kilometers.
i understand the sentiment, and it is funny, tarnation, but seriously. the kilometer is only the universal standard of measurement of long distances equivalent to EXACTLY how far light can travel in 1000/299,792,458 seconds. coincidence? (hint: no. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre) this, coming from an american. then again, i am a physics/engineering student so i guess im a little biased :P
Man, that would be nice if it was in my next smartphone. Hell, in any American phone.
When will digital "pocket" tv's come out? My analog one is going to be useless soon.
Don't airplanes already do this?