Concept Enterprises reveals first Mobile DTV car tuner
By Darren Murph 
posted Nov 11th 2009 11:26AM
posted Nov 11th 2009 11:26AM
The Advanced Television System Committee just approved the Mobile DTV standard last month, and already Concept Enterprises is dishing out what looks to be the planet's first in-car tuner to support that very format. 'Course, only time will tell if this thing will actually be loved in the market; we've already seen AT&T halt its CruiseCast installations after only a few months of being ignored. At any rate, the minuscule box is engineered to work with any after-market / OEM monitor with conventional RCA outputs, and it only requires a 1-inch roof-mount antenna base along with a 6-inch antenna wire. There's no word on when the $499 box is expected to hit the market, but until your DMA becomes one of the markets where testing is going on, you're probably better off just not thinking about it.
In related news, automobile-related fatalities increased 20%. Victims swore "it's for the kids on long trips" at time of purchase.
TV Tuners have been available at a reasonable price for cars for a decade now.
Nice! You mean RCA inputs though...the monitor isn't outputting the signal.
I believe its referring to the traditional outputs on the box, not the monitor
These are going into RVs. They all have dish network now anyway, may as well get an option for non-subscription programming, or for that matter local programming wherever you're camped.
So does this thing pick up the same signals as ATSC does? If it doesn't why do we need such a new standard?
"The ATSC Mobile DTV standard allows broadcasters to use a portion of the existing 19.3Mbps DTV channel"
Further reducing the already lame quality of the main HD channel. Oh, and that's after they've reduced it once or twice already with a low-resolution weather channel or home-shopping channel.
The ATSC: Ensuring that there's no lower limit to quality.
compared to shitty static, its still an improvement.
I don't think this should be compared to an expensive subscription service like AT&T CruiseCast. Over the air DTV is free. This thing is awesome.
Right now, to the best of my knowledge ATSC-M/H signals are available in New York, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Raleigh, and Omaha. No guarantees the content will be anything anyone actually wants to watch outside of DC and Baltimore and Raleigh.
Disclaimer: I maintain a nifty list: http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=atscmph
There are several in-car DTV tuners already available that tune HD ATSC. Just do a Google Shopping search for mobile DTV tuner:
http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=8Jc&resnum=0&q=mobile+dtv+tuner&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=-vb6SsfAIIjQM_bGzMsK&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CCcQrQQwBA
Power Acoustik mainly, Visiontek, some others.
Just none by Sony, Kenwood, Pioneer... that's all.
the ones you are referring to aren't the mobile versions. They only work when the vehicle is stopped. Try googling a little more
They only work when the vehicle is stopped if you install them that way ... saying nothing for signal integrity.
Suffice it to say, Asia has been using the ATSC band for much longer than America, and there are numerable in-car options available from North American distributors. I am not about to make an exhaustive list, however.
If it works well, then I welcome it, price is very steep though, the LCD monitor on the car is likely cheaper than the tuner, I hope they can do the math, nobody will buy it at that price.
Might be too little to late anyway, soon 3/4G streaming will be available on car, like "CLEAR" and TV channels will be streamed via the 3G network, like Sprint does for all their phones.
Damn, i guess this thing won't work with any of my monitors; all they have are INPUTS.
slow news day, cause RCA output not worth posting about