As part of my Sprint data plan I also get access to a basic tier of Internet TV stations, including CNN. I have fired it up a few times just to show my friends that I could. However I have to admit that otherwise I have never watched it. It is the sort of thing I like to have available for emergency type news but otherwise I don't think about it much. I don't travel much, carry a netbook when I do, and am usually in front of a computer screen anyway, so mobile TV is less important to me personally. If those circumstances were to change then I imagine I could get much more interested in it. But I would still expect it as part of my phone, not another separate receiver. - Tom dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: FCC Floats Cash-For-TV-Spectrum Scheme > > "My Sprint/HTC Win Mobile phone already has much of that (GPS, free CNN > TV, broadband) .... I think much of predicting technology is not knowing > what but knowing when. And I'm often way to early on the when. I think > maybe you were too." - Tom > > I broke my cell phone last month and picked up a new cheap one from > Verizon for $50. It says it is OTA and MediaFlo capable. I'm not sure if > this means it can receive ATSC M/H but since there aren't any of those > broadcasts in Las Vegas, one cannot tell. (I'd do a little more research > but getting our new facility online is absorbing all my time at present.) > > I'm one of those consumers that don't often go looking for technology but > if it just showed up on my portable device I'd probably think it was > pretty cool and start using it, to an extent. ATSC M/H would be an > example. Although I don't know that I'd be willing to pay a monthly fee > for it. > > I would like to install an ATSC-M/H LPTV-DT signal on campus to deliver a > program stream to our campus community. I think we could do it relatively > inexpensively and we would have a community that would use it, serving up > news and information on a local level to handheld devices held by a > populous that could use the information. But since ATSC M/H devices > aren't in the hands of our citizens, it is hard to sell it to the > administration. > > Dan > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.