Free mobile TV could be reality by next year
Testing of free, mobile digital TV for cell phones, netbooks and more is ramping up, and the first devices that can provide such broadcasts should be on store shelves by next year.Full story
Prisoners: We want our DTV
June 18: A Tampa, Fla. jail that wasn't ready for the digital TV transition is scrambling to install DTV converters into their five-channel cable system. WFLA's Krista Klaus reports.
Digital TV launch leaves some stranded
TV shows were replaced by the hiss of static in perhaps 1 million U.S. homes Friday as stations ended their analog broadcasts and abandoned the transmission technology in use since the days of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Howdy Doody. Full story
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LG's mobile digital TV and DVD player
LG's first mobile digital TV, with an integrated DVD player , will be available later this year for $249. It comes with two sets of earphone jacks so that more than one passenger can watch TV or movies in the back seat of a car, or on a train.
LG prototype phone with digital TV tuner
LG and Samsung are working on prototypes of phones that have mobile digital television tuners in them to receive local TV broadcasts. LG's Lotus phone, one of the prototypes, has a 2.4-inch diagonal screen when opened.
Analog Televisions Get Phased Out As US Prepares For Digital TV Conversion
POMPANO BEACH, FL - JUNE 05: Jim Salem carries a discarded analog television set to a bin at the Broward County Waste & Recycling Services Solid Waste center on June 5, 2009 in Pompano Beach, Florida. As America switches to a digital signal on June 12th many are throwing out their old television se
Antennae for digital TV transition
Households in most areas using a digital TV converter box will also need antennae capable of receiving both VHF and UHF signals to receive all of the digital channels, says the FCC.
