04-09-2004, 08:00 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,186
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I Want My M(obile) TV!
According to Dottocomu, Toshiba has put a TV tuner in a phone. "Vodafone Japan's latest handset, out in late April, is its second phone with a built-in TV tuner. The Toshiba-made V401T one-ups the previous model, NEC's V601N, by including an FM tuner as well as the TV, plus a 2.2-inch QVGA screen that should take some of the pain out of viewing at such reduced dimensions. It's possible to record stills and movies from TV broadcasts, though the lack of an external memory card limits you to 12 minutes at five frames per second using the 24MB of internal memory."
The TV tuner apparently sucks a lot of juice from the phones (they only last about an hour), but that's to be expected - cell phones don't have very large batteries. Could there be a mockup somewhere deep in the R&D bowels of Toshiba that integrates a TV tuner with an e-805 form factor, screen and battery? Combine the tuner with the already excellent ATI graphics chip in the unit, and you'd have a seriously killer device. What do you think? Would you like to see TV in a future Pocket PC, or would you rather rot your brain in a more productive way? :mrgreen:
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04-09-2004, 08:07 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 634
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I don't know if I would want a built-in TV tuner--the antennae make the device look a little to "retro" for my liking--but I would definitely be interested in an SDIO-based TV tuner that I could carry around in my Podzilla to kill time at the airport or to tune in to breaking news.
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04-09-2004, 08:08 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 39
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samsung
I'm about 95% sure that Samsung did ship a PPC in Korea that had a built in TV tuner. Mobile video is seen as an important business segment particularly in Asia.
They must have better stuff on their broadcast channels than we have! I'd need a dish on my PPC to be happy. :-)
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04-09-2004, 08:10 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 634
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Re: samsung
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Originally Posted by Horus
I'd need a dish on my PPC to be happy. :-)
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Now you're talking :rock on dude!:
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04-09-2004, 08:26 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 974
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That would be cool - pop in an SD card that has a TV tuner and an attahcment (maybe) for an antenna...
Not a bad idea!
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04-09-2004, 08:40 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 204
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have the TV card, and antenna separate. Place BT in the antenna and BT the signal to the PPC
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04-09-2004, 08:51 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 276
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I'm wanting DVB-H TV, which should be well formatted for the Pocket PC and consumes little power. Just like on the Nokia phone 7700 coming out sometime...
Plus the MPEG-2 DVB format isn't that hard to decode either. I just wonder how the IP datacasting works on a radio technology basis...
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04-09-2004, 08:55 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 275
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haha, no thankyou
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04-09-2004, 09:30 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 1,055
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by 24va
have the TV card, and antenna separate. Place BT in the antenna and BT the signal to the PPC
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This sounds like a great idea... it would be nice to have a "TV module" that you can connect to your Pocket PC via bluetooth. It's like the new GPS modules that are coming out in groves.
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04-09-2004, 10:06 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 128
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sorry unless the picture comes in high def, i'm not interested!
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