Private Tour: How Mobile TV Gets Made : Local Transmitters
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This is an experimental version of the transmitters that actually send out the FLO TV signal to handsets. If there isn’t an installation next to the TV tower, Qualcomm can put them underground to protect them from the weather. Ironically, these are actually DVB transmitters. MediaFLO is frequency agnostic and could be transmitted on any channel–it’s just a different waveform being sent and decoded. Qualcomm has already done trials using different spectrum with BSkyB in the UK, comparing FLO TV to DVB-H and it claims that the MediaFLO service can offer twice as many channels as a DVB-H network can with the same number of transmitters (or the same number of channels on half as many transmitters).
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What happened to the "anti-tv" crowd that was doing so well not too long ago? The last thing I need is another way to watch more stupid programs and dumb commercials!!