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Portable handheld digital tv -- Watchmans?

Re HL's last post: i know several people in FLA who purchased small 5" TV's that can run on batteries or car battery at yard sales/Goodwill for under $10. Although they have cable or satelite, they keep these TV's handy for hurricane season in case they lose power.
A rambling thought: has the FCC thought this transition to digital fully out? Will there be increased loss of life in certain areas during hurricane season due to people unable to receive an analog signal that may be "emergency" in nature? A lot of people live outside the range of digital stations or cannot afford a new digital TV. Are they being "sold" out?
 
The whole transition is a case of the government sticking its nose in where its not needed, bowing to the pressure of a lobbying group. Consumers be damned, the free market be damned--the'll just make people take it whether they want it or not.
 
That may be, but after purchasing a $250 Panasonic DVD recorder with an ATSC receiver in it (a DMR-EZ27, just for the record, and possibly the greatest $250 I have spent on any video equipment thus far, even if only for the digital tuner) and having had to fight for years, and multiple odd antennae, trying to get a decent signal on NTSC stations (where I live, decent NTSC reception tends to go from mediocre to total crap, depending on the time of the year) ATSC is a major improvement, I think.

[Digital TV is] one of those things where like, you have gotten along just fine for years without it but then like, you actually use it and wonder how you ever managed all those years. It's weird, to say the least.........

At least now I know Bob Barker's hair is, in fact, white--not that odd shade of bluish-purple that complemented his greenish skin. And how Alan Alda's army fatigues were in fact olive-drab instead of that strange burgundy I have seen for years!! ;o)

(And did you know that "stereo TV broadcasts" really ARE stereophonic??)

Remember, NTSC= (N)ever (T)wice the (S)ame (C)olour!

"But from all accounts digital is "hit or miss" and one would have to make an exceptional tuner to pull in the weaker digitals."

Not to mention a w-i-d-e-b-a-n-d tuner at that. Extra wide if it happens to be in a moving vehicle.
I haven't tried receiving digital TV in a moving vehicle yet but I ought to one of these days. (I have a power inverter in my '88 Bronco.....all I would have to add is a magnet-mount antenna to the roof..........)

I'll try to report my results here if/when I do this! Due to the technology I am not expecting anything incredible tho, like being able to watch an episode of M*A*S*H while I come home from having dinner. (That would be dreaming.)
 
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