[opendtv] First Mobile DTV Car Tuner At $499
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:40:13 -0500
http://www.twice.com/article/388144-First_Mobile_DTV_Car_Tuner_At_499.php
note: photo on web page.
First Mobile DTV Car Tuner At $499
By Amy Gilroy -- TWICE, 11/9/2009
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.
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