[opendtv] Re: News: FCC Floats Cash-For-TV-Spectrum Scheme
- From: dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:17:37 -0700
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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