If you're on AT&T or Verizon you may have watched an episode of something or another wirelessly via
FLO TV, and while the service has hardly taken the nation by storm, it's probably the closest thing to
DMB we Americans are going to get for awhile. Qualcomm was
rumored to be working on a dedicated device for the service
also called the FLO TV, a television-tuning gizmo with a capacitive touchscreen, and now here it is, captured sitting precariously close to the edge of the table, looking set to tumble onto what's surely a greasy, dingy floor below. The device also doubles as a PMP, and while only 4GB of storage means it won't be a particularly
good one, with any luck there's a microSD slot in there somewhere. It's all very hush-hush at this point so we don't have any idea about pricing or availability, but perhaps the loose lips at the
FCC will give us an answer to that second question soon.
posted Sep 24th 2009 7:57AM
FloTV sucks, I have it on my cell phone, a lot of stuff is repeats, only 12 channels, and AT&T and Verizon only have 2-3 phones that can work with FloTV, as opposed to SPRINT which uses MobiTV via 3G streaming, gets 50 channels, and works on pretty much every phone that has a 3G browser.
Will there ever be a portable tuner in the USA to use on laptops or to make portable TV's? they have them in Europe, China, Japan..., but of course we had to be different and a choose a crappy digital signal that can't be had with portable devices, stupid country.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC-M/H
It's a variation of ATSC that includes extra signals to help mobile devices pick it up, while still being compatible with existing ATSC TVs.
Another proprietary protocol. When will they ever learn?
It is because they are learning that they use proprietary protocols.
More profit
Yeah! Like CDMA.
Yeah! Like CDMA.