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are their aany pcoket hd tv yet?

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Ozman

I am curious to know If any of you know if their are any hd pocket tv's on the market yet. if there are I would really want to get one because of the subchannels especailly sice i love the weather, a couple of the tv station's have their doppler radars on a subchannels. thanks

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OZ
the impulse 91.5
wwlr lyndonville vt
(tentative 9-noon starting 1/19)<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Ozman on 12/08/05 03:11 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> I am curious to know If any of you know if their are any hd
> pocket tv's HD! on the market yet. if there are I would
> really want to get one because of the subchannels especailly
> sice i love the weather, a couple of the tv station's have
> their doppler radars on a subchannels. thanks

Watch your terminology. HDTV specifically refers to 720-line progressive (720p), and 1080-line interlaced (1080i) formats. (I think the official definition may have been expanded to include 1080p, which is just now making its way onto the market as well.)

No pocket-sized screens have anywhere near that resolution; the newest (iPod video) has one third the vertical resolution required for the lowest-resolution HDTV, so I doubt you'll be seeing pocket HDTV any time in the next decade or so.

As for pocket DIGITAL television (DTV, the ATSC standard), we don't have full penetration of DTV into living room sets yet, so I doubt we'll see digital portables of any size (especially pocket) in large numbers before the final switch-off date, whenever it ends up being.
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Re: are their any pocket digital and/or HDTVs yet?

> As for pocket DIGITAL television (DTV, the ATSC standard),
> we don't have full penetration of DTV into living room sets
> yet, so I doubt we'll see digital portables of any size
> (especially pocket) in large numbers before the final
> switch-off date, whenever it ends up being.
>

I seriously doubt it either. With all of the movement wouldn't you constantly keep getting that video signal freeze?

Any-hoo, we sell a couple of "digital" TVs at work, as in the kind that'll pass through DT's sub-channels (such as 35-2 here for NBC Weather Plus) but not anything that's high definition. They're 27" flat screens from Sanyo. They'd probably be best for a progressive scan DVD player or digital cable.
 
Re: are their any pocket digital and/or HDTVs yet?

ok hdtv maybe not.
but I am curious to know. do you know of any pocket (digial) signal televisions in the works?

I have the casio ti-SYN
and when I get a signal people can't belive the quality I get on this little thing. its amazing! you could almost say its like a hdtv.
(it comes in handy if theres no power ie when theres an ice storm for example)

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OZ
the impulse 91.5
wwlr lyndonville vt
9-noon starting 1/19

> > As for pocket DIGITAL television (DTV, the ATSC standard),
>
> > we don't have full penetration of DTV into living room
> sets
> > yet, so I doubt we'll see digital portables of any size
> > (especially pocket) in large numbers before the final
> > switch-off date, whenever it ends up being.
> >
>
> I seriously doubt it either. With all of the movement
> wouldn't you constantly keep getting that video signal
> freeze?
>
> Any-hoo, we sell a couple of "digital" TVs at work, as in
> the kind that'll pass through DT's sub-channels (such as
> 35-2 here for NBC Weather Plus) but not anything that's high
> definition. They're 27" flat screens from Sanyo. They'd
> probably be best for a progressive scan DVD player or
> digital cable.
>
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Ozman on 12/08/05 03:09 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> As for pocket DIGITAL television (DTV, the ATSC standard),
> we don't have full penetration of DTV into living room sets
> yet, so I doubt we'll see digital portables of any size
> (especially pocket) in large numbers before the final
> switch-off date, whenever it ends up being.

So far as I'm aware, no ATSC chipsets are available yet that have low enough power consumption to be suitable for battery powered devices.

However, the FCC has proposed extending the digital tuner mandate to cover all televisions (regardless of screen size) after March, 2007. That suggests that if manufacturers want to continue making portable televisions after that date, they'll have to add ATSC reception capability. While it is possible that portable hand-held televisions may just disappear from the market temporarily until such time as ATSC-compatible sets can be affordably built, my suspicion is that we'll see something available in early 2007.

Regarding reception issues, I'm not especially concerned. While ATSC reception in a moving vehicle will remain problematic, improvements in reception capability over the past few years means that ATSC should work fine for most portable uses (ie, hauling a television somewhere and then setting it down to watch it).
 
Re: are their any pocket digital and/or HDTVs yet?

> ok hdtv maybe not.
> but I am curious to know. do you know of any pocket (digial)
> signal televisions in the works?
>
> I have the casio ti-SYN
> and when I get a signal people can't belive the quality I
> get on this little thing. its amazing! you could almost say
> its like a hdtv.
> (it comes in handy if theres no power ie when theres an ice
> storm for example)
>
> --------------------
> OZ
> the impulse 91.5
> wwlr lyndonville vt
> 9-noon starting 1/19
>


I think you might be referring to the Casio TI-STN TV 980-While it gets decent signals on UHF, No way you can "almost say" it's like HDTV. Being far enough away from Cleveland VHF's, I only get channels 7 Wheeling, 8 Cleveland and 9 Steubenville at home. At various times I get on UHF: (from Canton)

17 Canton
19 Cleveland
21 Youngstown
23 Akron
25 Cleveland
27 Youngstown
33 Youngstown (weakest of Y'Town signals-rare)
43 Cleveland
44 Cambridge, Ohio (65 miles south of Canton)
45 Alliance
49 Akron
52 Canton (LPTV)
55 Akron
61 Cleveland
67 Canton
 
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