Texas Instruments says 70% of cellphones will have digital TV tuners by 2007

It's exactly not news anymore that companies are working on
tiny digital TV tuners for cellphones, but according to CNET, Texas Intstruments says that 70% of all cellphones worldwide will have digital television chips within three years. Normally we'd toss this as self-serving crap from a company that's trying to move some product (not to mention the whole thing about whether people really want to watch TV on their cellphone), but after seeing the rise and rise of cameraphones (remember that it was only two years ago that the first handsets with built-in digital cameras arrived here in the States, and now it's hard to find a new phone without one) we're not quite foolish enough to bet against technology's relentless march forward.