[opendtv] Re: News: FCC Floats Cash-For-TV-Spectrum Scheme
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:08:22 -0400
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
>
>
>
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