Mobile TV on iPad Delayed by 1964 Law
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Check this out: it’s free, live mobile TV on the iPad, enabled by a little box called the Tivizen. We previously saw the Tivizen back in January when it was called the Valups Tivit. It receives a new form of over-the-air TV broadcasting called Mobile DTV, and sends it out over a Wi-Fi network so gadgets live iPads can watch through their Web browsers.
Here at the CEA Line Shows, the Open Mobile Video Coalition is showing off a bunch of Mobile Digital TV devices, including Samsung and LG phones, portable DVD players and a potential in-car system. And they have a list of dozens of channels planning to broadcast Mobile Digital TV or running channels for testing right now, from WNUV in Baltimore to KAIL in Fresno, CA.
Unfortunately, the march to mobile TV has temporarily stalled because of a 1964 law which apparently mandates that all TV receivers get analog channels, the OMVC’s Dave Arland said here at the show. (Mobile TV receivers are digital only.) So the OMVC has asked the FCC to give an official thumbs-up to digital-only receivers. With the government’s blessing, MDTV receivers should start appearing on shelves in July, Arland said.
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